Tim Wright English
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Biography
Tim Wright was born and grew up in London, where he continues to live and work. In the mid 1980s he graduated in Fine Art from Middlesex University. His early paintings displayed an interest in the figure and explored its fragmentation through a vigorous painting process. The body, the observed world and their expression through paint continue to assert themselves. His practice has developed along two strands : the portrait and figure painting. Although one informs the other, they are separate and discreet. The portraits are concerned with capturing likeness and expressing personality. The figure painting allows for the exploration of other, broader themes.
Tim Wright has exhibited extensively and his work features in many collections, both in the UK and internationally. Most recently he has had a number of solo exhibitions with Shine Artists in Albemarle Street London, featured in the 2014 BP Portrait Award at The National Portrait Gallery, shown portraits at Petworth House in Sussex and Burgh House in London.
He has a long experience of teaching and lecturing. He worked as a fine art lecturer at most of the principal London art colleges, particularly Chelsea School of Art, Middlesex University and The Motley Theatre Design School. He continues to teach courses in painting at his studio in London.
From 2011 until 2013 he was engaged as painting consultant on the Mike Leigh directed film 'Mr Turner'. He taught the actor Timothy Spall to paint, in order for him to prepare for the role, and, when filming began, advised him and other actors on set. This was a an immersive process which lasted for over two years.
In his figure paintings he investigates several themes and over recent years he has explored ideas about how people present themselves, how groups interact, notions of stillness and display, and the clothed and unclothed.
Wright's more recent works have seen a refocus of his gestural, fluid forms away from the human body and towards the innanimate object - that of an elaborately carved Rococo frame. Together with what is contained, the frame variously suggests an aperture, an eye, a lens or a mirror. It is also a gateway through which information is transmitted and transformed. The device draws and focusses attention to an inchoate vortex of paint onto which viewers can project their own imaginings. The foliated ellipse sits in a sea of turbulent and expressively-handled paint, whose films, skins and veils articulate the mist, spray and vapour of an elemental and unknown landscape.
The paintings make oblique reference to the disturbing worlds of Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass", Tarkovsky's "Solaris" and Turner's late-period sea-pieces.
Works
- Feet First , 2023Oil on canvas55 x 45 cm
21.7 x 17.7 in - Hare 1, 2023Oil on canvas70 x 60 cm
27.6 x 23.6 in - Lookout, 2023Oil on canvas55 x 45 cm
21.7 x 17.7 in - Not Far Away, 2023Oil on canvas120 x 120 cm
47.2 x 47.2 in - Princess, 2023Chalk, watercolour and pencil on paper65 x 46 cm
25.6 x 18.1 in - Shepherdess, 2023Oil on canvas55 x 45 cm
21.7 x 17.7 in - Shepherdesses, 2023Chalk, watercolour and pencil on paper65 x 46 cm
25.6 x 18.1 in - Swimmer, 2023Oil on canvas55 x 45 cm
21.7 x 17.7 in - The Drop, 2023Chalk, watercolours and pencil on paper65 x 46 cm
25.6 x 18.1 in - The Leap, 2023Oil on canvas55 x 45 cm
21.7 x 17.7 in - Vertigo, 2023Oil on canvas55 x 45 cm
21.7 x 17.7 in - Watcher, 2023Chalk, watercolour and pencil on paper65 x 46 cm
25.6 x 18.1 in - Witnesses, 2023Chalk, watercolour and pencil on paper65 x 46 cm
25.6 x 18.1 in - A Memorial, 2022Oil on canvas100 x 75 cm
39.4 x 29.5 in - Blue Rose, 2022Oil on canvas90 x 60 cm
35.4 x 23.6 in - Four Blooms, 2022Oil on canvas90 x 60 cm
35.4 x 23.6 in - Hare Head Here, 2022Oil on canvas90 x 60 cm
35.4 x 23.6 in - Here Hangs a Hare, 2022Oil on canvas100 x 75 cm
39.4 x 29.5 in - I Saw the Light, 2022Oil on canvas70 x 60 cm
27.6 x 23.6 in - Misty, 2022Oil on canvas70 x 60 cm
27.6 x 23.6 in - Something Wicked..., 2022Oil on canvas70 x 60 cm
27.6 x 23.6 in - Fairytale, 2021Oil on canvas90 x 120 cm
35.4 x 47 in - Trophy, 2019Oil on canvas70 x 60 cm
27.5 x 23.6 in - Rosalind Thinks it Over, 2017Oil on canvas90 x 120 cm
35 x 47 in - TS 3, 2014Oil on canvas90 x 60 cm
35 x 24 in - TS 4, 2014Oil on canvas90 x 60 cm
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Tim Wright
Featured Works | Cast18 Nov - 23 Dec 2023Tim Wright ’s ‘Cast’ introduces a sequence of male and female characters. Engaged in various levels of activity from the contemplative to the vigorous, they operate as emblematic types drawn...Read moreThrough the Mind’s Eye: an Anthology
9 Feb - 26 Mar 2023Massimo Giannoni is a painter of books and, in particular, a multitude of books that are housed in specific libraries, stores and collections. These are painted in a colourful, representational...Read morePontone & Albemarle Group Show
4 - 26 Feb 2022Acclaimed Scottish painter, Iain Faulkner , continues his enquiry into the expressive potential of the solitary male figure. Whether located in a luxurious international hotel room or the rugged landscape...Read more
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