Biography | williamwrightpainter

William Wright (b.1971, Nottingham, England) is a painter and printmaker who meticulously explores and archives the objects that populate his studio and home. From fruit to flowers, open windows to stubbed cigarettes, his chosen subjects map a steady record of observation, the passing of time. Each item is distilled down to its inherent objecthood through an economy of line and solidity. His compositions are layered through delicate deliberations; a texture of accretion underlines the studious rigour at the heart of Wright’s dense work.

Wright explores how memory shifts to imagination, observation into association. The phrasing of an object becomes accented by the union of the canon: a skull here, a timepiece there, the language of the domestic bleeding into art historical trope and tradition. As subjects are revisited, they accumulate additional character, furnishing them with an air of friendly familiarity. Wright’s paintings elevate the sublunary into the realm of the art historical collective consciousness, drawing a continuum between painting of the past and a still life of the present.

William Wright lives and works in London, England.

Recent exhibitions include:

2024 The Wreathed Trellis, Josh Lilley, London (Solo); Nocturnes, Casa MB, Milan (Two-Person); Mad Monk, Micki Meng, New York; Transparency, Lyndsey Ingram Gallery, London; Standing on Fishes, Sea View, Los Angeles (Solo)

2023 Everyday Drawings, Drawing Now Art Fair, Paris with Galerie Ariane C-Y (Solo)

2022 Quiet Days, Seventh House Gallery, Los Angeles (Solo); Absent Artists Charleston, East Sussex;

Brushes Lyndsey Ingram Gallery, London (Solo)

2021 The Painter's Coat Galerie Ariane C-Y, Paris (Solo); Herbal Remedies Lyndsey Ingram Gallery, London;

2020 Urgemment, Patiement Galerie Ariane C-Y, Paris

2019 Painting Painting The Eagle Gallery, London;