Collar, oil on canvas, 2024
Caroline Wright makes painting, drawings, installations and work that is time based. She sometimes works site specifically responding to locations as varied as cities, beaches, festivals and public buildings. She is interested in people, in their daily lives and the way in which they form an identity through place attachment and the signifying objects they surround themselves with.
Wright is currently undertaking PhD research at the Royal College of Art and is Programme Leader for post- and undergraduate Fine Art at The Open College of the Arts, part of the Open University. She exhibits nationally and internationally and has been in receipt of several awards, grants and prizes from, for example, Arts Council England, Cambridge University, AN Publications and firstsite Collectors.
Education
2019 Practice Based PhD, School of Arts & Humanities, Royal College of Art (part-time, completion 2026)
2018 Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
2012 Post Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching (Art and Design), University of the Arts, London
2002 Master of Arts, Fine Art, Norwich School of Art and Design
2000 Bachelor of Arts Honours, Fine Art, Norwich School of Art and Design
2018 Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
2012 Post Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching (Art and Design), University of the Arts, London
2002 Master of Arts, Fine Art, Norwich School of Art and Design
2000 Bachelor of Arts Honours, Fine Art, Norwich School of Art and Design
Selected Solo Exhibitions and Commissions
2023 Earthwise, Beaconsfield Gallery/RCA London & Research Biennale 2023, Royal College of Art, online
UCL Trellis Arbor, residency and commission
2021-22 UCL Trellis 3, artist/researcher collaboration and exhibition, The Art Pavilion, London
2021 Research Biennale 2021, Royal College of Art, online
2021 Sound and textile commission, International Fair Trial Conference Award touring to international BAR Associations (with Judd Druce & Kay Parker)
2021 Groundwork, commission, Cheshire West & Chester Council.
2019 Re-Frame: A nomadic response to W G Sebald [on Orford Ness], Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, University of East Anglia and National Trust.
2019 Old Cold, research performance with Dr Carla Rees, Toynbee Hall, London
2019 Breath Control: Osmosis, theatre performance & installation, The Coronet Theatre, Notting Hill, London, produced by Artsadmin
2018 Temporal, commission, Cambridge Judge Business School, Cambridge University
Breathing Hut, commission, Pier Projects Art Agency, Felixstowe
2017 Breath Control: Osmosis, performance, Latitude Festival, Suffolk and Breath Control: Notes, Usher Gallery, University of Lincoln
Royal Ulster Academy Exhibition, guest artist, Northern Ireland
Breath Control: Notes, Space to Breathe/Utopia, Somerset House, London and Breath Control: Hyperventilation, Cambridge Junction & Science Festival
2016 Thought for Food, discursive dinner, Artsadmin, London
On the Wing, commission, Trust New Art
Sawdust and Threads, Iteration IV, exhibition, Dept. of Anthropology, UCL
2015 Breath Control, performance, le Collectif BLAST, Angers France
2014 Sawdust and Threads, Norwich Castle Museum & Gallery, The Scott Polar Museum and University College London Museums and Collections.
My Home is my Museum, performance, online public collection, publication and public event for Curating Cambridge, Cambridge University Museums
Out of Water, performance, (with Helen Paris), Escalator East to Edinburgh, Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival
Impossible Changeling, installation, Undercurrent Festival, Shoreham
2013 Out of Water, performance, PSi19 Conference, Stanford University, USA
Soundings, performance, Pilot Festival, Brightlingsea, Essex
The Inishlacken Project, invitation residency, Inishlacken Island, Galway, Ireland
2012 Trace, commission, Cambridge Council/ Grosvenor London/Trumpington Meadows Land, InSite Arts
Open Space Atelier, firstsite Colchester & Beaconsfield London
Garden of Reason, commissioned performance/installation, Trust New Art, Ham House, Richmond
Hopscotch to Victory, Live Art Collective East, East of England Cultural Olympiad commission
Out of Water, commissioned performance, London, 2012 Festival
on tides and fathoms, film screening, The South Lookout, Aldeburgh
2011 Encounters, audio & neon installation Fermynwoods Contemporary Art
2010. Latitude Festival, Suffolk, installation
Recollecting, solo exhibition, Visions Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2023 Earthwise, Beaconsfield Gallery/RCA London & Research Biennale 2023, Royal College of Art, online
UCL Trellis Arbor, residency and commission
2021-22 UCL Trellis 3, artist/researcher collaboration and exhibition, The Art Pavilion, London
2021 Research Biennale 2021, Royal College of Art, online
2021 Sound and textile commission, International Fair Trial Conference Award touring to international BAR Associations (with Judd Druce & Kay Parker)
2021 Groundwork, commission, Cheshire West & Chester Council.
2019 Re-Frame: A nomadic response to W G Sebald [on Orford Ness], Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, University of East Anglia and National Trust.
2019 Old Cold, research performance with Dr Carla Rees, Toynbee Hall, London
2019 Breath Control: Osmosis, theatre performance & installation, The Coronet Theatre, Notting Hill, London, produced by Artsadmin
2018 Temporal, commission, Cambridge Judge Business School, Cambridge University
Breathing Hut, commission, Pier Projects Art Agency, Felixstowe
2017 Breath Control: Osmosis, performance, Latitude Festival, Suffolk and Breath Control: Notes, Usher Gallery, University of Lincoln
Royal Ulster Academy Exhibition, guest artist, Northern Ireland
Breath Control: Notes, Space to Breathe/Utopia, Somerset House, London and Breath Control: Hyperventilation, Cambridge Junction & Science Festival
2016 Thought for Food, discursive dinner, Artsadmin, London
On the Wing, commission, Trust New Art
Sawdust and Threads, Iteration IV, exhibition, Dept. of Anthropology, UCL
2015 Breath Control, performance, le Collectif BLAST, Angers France
2014 Sawdust and Threads, Norwich Castle Museum & Gallery, The Scott Polar Museum and University College London Museums and Collections.
My Home is my Museum, performance, online public collection, publication and public event for Curating Cambridge, Cambridge University Museums
Out of Water, performance, (with Helen Paris), Escalator East to Edinburgh, Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival
Impossible Changeling, installation, Undercurrent Festival, Shoreham
2013 Out of Water, performance, PSi19 Conference, Stanford University, USA
Soundings, performance, Pilot Festival, Brightlingsea, Essex
The Inishlacken Project, invitation residency, Inishlacken Island, Galway, Ireland
2012 Trace, commission, Cambridge Council/ Grosvenor London/Trumpington Meadows Land, InSite Arts
Open Space Atelier, firstsite Colchester & Beaconsfield London
Garden of Reason, commissioned performance/installation, Trust New Art, Ham House, Richmond
Hopscotch to Victory, Live Art Collective East, East of England Cultural Olympiad commission
Out of Water, commissioned performance, London, 2012 Festival
on tides and fathoms, film screening, The South Lookout, Aldeburgh
2011 Encounters, audio & neon installation Fermynwoods Contemporary Art
2010. Latitude Festival, Suffolk, installation
Recollecting, solo exhibition, Visions Gallery, Tokyo, Japan