Biography | williamwrightpainter

William Wright takes inspiration from his daily life in and around the studio. Working from memory, imagination or direct observation, paintings can evolve over many weeks and months. Small in scale and muted in palette, Wright’s work is imbued with a quiet atmosphere and restrained quality. Often focusing on a single object against a plain background, all extraneous detail is removed.

The artist’s ongoing ‘studio pictures’ series takes the studio environment itself as its subject. A private sanctuary, it is witness to the repeated routine and ritual of painting and drawing. These images of the artist’s paraphernalia, real or imagined, are essentially about the mercurial act of making and the studio space as home to endless possibilities and encounters.

‘William Wright's paintings and drawings have for me the same intensity as poems that conjure visual imagery of the world we live in…they have a melancholic ache that comes from someone who is a profound observer’. - Tom Hammick

William Wright (b.1971) is a British painter and printmaker based in South-East London.

Recent exhibitions include:

2024 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;