I’m interested in the slippage between what we think we know and the felt state of the body, asking how painting might act as a stimulus to transcend the everyday experience of living. To me, these works enact a kind of ‘opening’ and through this a felt exaltation or agony by tight coiling gestures that hold a tension and release. A frozen moment of ecstasy perhaps, equally delicious as it is grotesque. The significance of the large scale allows us to become aware of the relative size of our bodies before it. In both scale and style, abstraction is ‘an ideal vehicle for something as enigmatic and subjective as the spiritual. - Grace Wright
Grace Wright’s background in dance, performance, and music, all come together in a unique energy that combines movement and colour in multilayered compositions that seem to impossibly balance localised surface details with equal parts visceral immersion. Grace graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (hons) from Elam School of Fine Arts (Auckland) in 2014 and she completed her MFA in 2019.
*Residents of New Zealand interested in acquiring Grace's work should contact Gow Langsford Gallery in Auckland*
