Freya Wright

Freya Wright's paintings engage with the juxtaposition of the technological distance of film and the human touch of painting. Painting’s lack of obligatory narrative structure introduces questions on the reliability of the cinema image.

Each painting is made from a low key moment, a small sequence where narrative is lost and the moment is quiet and still, and action is gestured out of the frame. With the subtle editing of space or the subtraction of certain figures, and with the choice of specific early Technicolour film, a further ambiguity and tension is created, and paintings venture into the realms of the “uncanny”.

Images chosen engage with the perception of memory within each film, as each, however low key, have a resonance and association throughout the film. These moments also play with the memory of film itself, as with involuntary association they cross our perceptions and thoughts of everyday life.

Shifts in modern film experiences have meant that the viewing of film is more often small scale and intimate rather than that of a large scale cinematic experience which had preceded it. With the use of VCR/DVD, film can be more controlled, and narratives can now be routinely countermanded with symptomatic freedoms such as the ability to pause and repeat time.

B. 1986 Leamington Spa

2009–2011 MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London
2005–2008 BA (hons) Fine Art, Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London

recent exhibitions

2009 A Shot In The Dark, Carter Presents, Prague
2009 Catlin Art Prize, London
2009 The London Art Fair, Carter Presents, London
2008 Scope Art Fair, Carter Presents, London
2006 Distractions, Nolia’s Gallery, London

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2009

Freya Wright won The Landmark Fine Art Prize, First Prize, June 2008

Freya Wright born 1986 Studied Wimbledon School of Art 2005 - 2008