Daphne Wright's work slips things into well-wrought but delicate doubt - shifting between taughtness and mess, it sets imagery, materials and language in
constant metaphorical motion. Using a wide range of materials - plaster, tinfoil, video, printmaking, found objects and performance - she creates worlds
that are beautiful and rather eerie and just probably the threshold to somewhere new.
Daphne Wright's work was the subject of a solo exhibition at Limerick City Art Gallery in 2006. Wright has been involved in several
important international group exhibitions, notably 0044 touring the Institute for Contemporary Art - PS1, New York; Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo;
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, 1999/2000 and From a Distance: Approaching Landscape, at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. She has had major solo
exhibitions including Where Do Broken Hearts Go? at the Douglas Hyde Galley, Dublin in 2000, These Talking Walls at the New Art Centre Sculpture Park and Gallery,
Roche Court, Wiltshire, Nonsense and Death at the Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo, Ireland and Sires at Frith Street Gallery, London in 2003.
BIOGRAPHY1963 1981 - 1985 1985 - 1987 1989 - 1991 SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2006 2005 2003 2001 2000 1998 1996 1995 1994 GROUP
EXHIBITIONS 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998-1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1993 AWARDS
2002 1997-98 1996 1995-96 1994-95 1994-95 1993-94 1993-94 1992-93 1991-92 COMMISSIONS 2004-05 2002-05 2002-03 1999 COLLECTIONS PUBLICATIONS ©
2007 Frith Street Gallery
Born in Ireland
Sligo RTC College
National College of Art & Design, Dublin
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic
Sires, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland
Sires, Sligo Art Gallery, Ireland
Eigse Carlow Arts Festival, Ireland
Sires, Frith Street Gallery, London press release
Anonymous, Essex University Gallery, Essex
These Talking Walls, Crawford Gallery, Cork Ireland
These Talking Walls, The New Art Centre Sculpture Park and Gallery, Roche Court,Wiltshire
Nonsense and Death, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo, Ireland
Where Do Broken Hearts Go? Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
They've taken to their beds, Spacex Gallery, Exeter
New work, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
New works, Frith Street Gallery, London
They've taken to their beds, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
City Art Gallery, Limerick
Lots wife 2, London Artforms, London
Domestic Shrubbery, Castlefield, Manchester
Still Life, Cornerhouse, Manchester
Domestic Shrubbery, The Model Arts Centre, Sligo, Ireland
City Centre Art Gallery, Limerick
Sculpture at Kells, Mullins Mill, Kells, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland
Ystrad Fflur/Strata Florida, Ceredigion, Wales
New Sculpture from Ireland, New Art Centre
After Life, curated by Simon Morrissey, The Bowes Museum
Croon: A Collaboration between Daphne Wright and Johnny Hanrahan, Meridian Theatre Company and the National Sculpture Factory, Cork
Sculpture: A Spectator Sport, Contemporary sculpture in Bryanston Park
Locws2, Site-specific arts events around the city of Swansea, curated by Tim Davies and David Hastie
Shine, The Lowry Centre, Salford Quays
The garden, Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Glasnevin
The Sitooteries, Belsay Hall, Northumberland
From a Distance: Approaching Landscape, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
0044, The Institute for Contemporary Art - PS1, New York
Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
Book, Djanogly Art Gallery, The University of Nottigham Art Centre
Oriel Mostyn
Aberystwuth Arts Centre
Delectable, Real Gallery, New York
Eastenders, the annual programme, Manchester
EV+A 98, Invited Artist, Ireland
A case for collection, new work by contemporary artists, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
Earthly Delights, Ikon Gallery Touring Show, Birmingham
Irish Geographies, Djanogly Art Gallery (touring), Nottingham
Critics Choice, R.H.A. Gallery, Dublin
Private View, Bowes Museum, Co. Durham
Summer Show, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
On Stream, Bluecoat, Liverpool
Clot, London Artforms, London
Making It, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
Full Circle, British School at Rome, Italy
Arte e Altro, Giovani artisti 5, Rome
Territoria, Sala 1, Rome
1992
Cheltenham Fellows Show, Pittville Gallery, Cheltenham
1991
The Gymnasium, Goldsmiths, London
South West Arts Award
Cultural Relations Committee of Ireland
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award
South West Arts Award
Irish Arts Council Bursaries
North West Arts Award
Henry Moore Fellowship, Manchester Metro University
'Diaspora', Living Arts Project (funded by Irish Arts Council)
British School at Rome Award in Sculpture
Cheltenham Fellowship
The Witness Tree, Sculpture installation for Castlebar Courthouse, Co Mayo, Ireland
Gorbals Project, Glasgow, in association with CWZ Architects and The Artworks Programme
Ballymun Project, Dublin in association with BDP and Breaking Ground
Tron Project, Glasgow, in association RMJM and Visual Art Projects
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
Towner Art Gallery, Sussex (purchased through
The Contemporary Art Society and Arts Council of England)
Private collections in Ireland and the UK
Anonymous, essays by Edwina Ashton and David Jeffreys published to accompany the exhibition Anonymous at the Gallery of the University of Essex, 2003
Locws International 2002, essay by Emma Safe
Shine, exhibition catalogue, published by the Lowry Centre, May 2002
Where do broken hearts go?, exhibition catalogue, essay by Juliana Engberg and John Hutchinson,
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin 2001
John Hutchinson, Patmos, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 2001
0044, exhibition catalogue, essay by Nuala Fenton, Peter Murray and Claire Schneider 2000
Book, essay by David Bickerstaff and Paul Bonaventura, Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham 1998
View R Mead Gallery, Coventry 1999.
They've Taken to their Beds, essays by Fiona Bradley, Shirley MacWilliam, Mebh Ruane and Rob Stone, 1998.
Irish Geographies, by Dr. Catherine Nash, Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, 1997
Private View, essay by Penelope Curtis & Viet Gorner, Bowes Museum, 1996
Making It, essay by Fiona Bradley, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, 1995
Versus Contemporary Art Magazine, Artist page no.3, 1994
Works by Daphne Wright, essays by Fiona Barber & Shirley MacWilliam, Manchester Metro University, 1994.
Orange in conversation with Sasha Craddock, 1994.
Territoria, essays by Francesca Capriccioli & Alessandra Cappella, Sala 1, Rome, 1993.
Full Circle, essay by Jon Thompson, British School at Rome, 1993
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