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Vicky Wright

United Kingdom

category: Painting
technique: Oilpainting
Style: Minimal / Concept-Art

Statement:
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Vicky Wright @ Bloomberg SPACE, London

Open: 11AM-6PM Mon-Sat 12-28th Nov 2009

http://www.bloombergspace.com/index.html
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My work is coloured by my own experience, and my family, themselves heavily intertwined in the coal mining tradition of North West England, and its eventual politically engineered demise, which I witnessed through my early adulthood. My Grandmother was a very strong influence on my life and art. Her tales of working in this underworld, even while still carrying my father in the womb, continue to fill me with a fascination and awe: the inhuman conditions, the sulphurous air contaminated by heavy machinery, and the huge burden of survival made me feel that I was within a part of a lost age.

Since 'Extraction 1', featured in the John Moores exhibition, many of my works imply a sense of momentary disorder by taking the shape of abject bodies or, as Mikhail Bahktin spoke of in his writings on the work of French poet Rabelais, �body grotesques�. These work attempt to explore the masking employed to disguise such structures and systems imposed upon the people by state regimes and other economic apparatus, its repudiation, a symbolic �body grotesque� or abject body which exists to critique society, to express life and death cycles, and thus remind us of our bodily connectivity to the world in which we live.

When the Marquis de Sade refers to �extraction�, he does so in terms of �pimps�, or �libertines�, amoral men who �extract their rents at the price of unbearable miseries�. These libertines would display their wealth unashamedly, as a symbol of wealth and perceived superiority. Such vivid depictions of amoral exploitation are examples to some of Sade�s amorality, but equally we could see them as a depiction of the amorality concealed within the heart of the mercantile body. Like Sade�s pimps, a portrait may act as a symbol, but its purpose is a mask to obscure the character of the mercantile body.

Bio / Resumee / Statement:
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Vicky Wright was born in Bolton, England, but spent her formative years in Liverpool. She studied in London at the RCA and Goldsmiths, where she has recently graduated from the MFA Programme. She has had presentations at Bloomberg SPACE, London 2009, VOLTA New York 2008, IBID Projects London (2005) and IBID Projects Vilnius Lithuania (2004), and has taken part in numerous group shows including; 'The Full English' MOT, London (2003), 'BP Portrait Award' National Portrait Gallery, London (2003), 'Salon Nouveau' Engholm Engelhorn Gallery, Vienna (2006), 'Ein Grosser Schwartzer' Alfred Camp, London (2007),'Latitude' NYCAM Gallery, New York (2008) and 'Antique Wardrobe' MOT, London (2008/9) and 'Daily Miracles' Josn Lilley Gallery, London (2009). She was a Winner of the Jerwood Painting Prize (2007), BP Portrait Award (2003), a finalist in the Celeste Painting Prize (2006) and was selected for the John Moores Painting Prize (2008/9). Her work has been widely collected and is represented in some of the most eminent private collections across Europe and the US.

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Comma 14: Vicky Wright @ Bloomberg SPACE London

COMMA is a dynamic new series of commissions enabling artists to experiment and expand their practice in relation to the particular nature of Bloomberg SPACE

Exhibition Runs: 12th to 28th November 2009
Opening Hours: Mon - Sat 11am - 6pm
Admission: FREE
Nearest Stations: Moorgate & Liverpool St

Bloomberg SPACE, 50 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1HD
Tel: +44 20 7330 7959 Email: gallery@bloomberg.net
Web: www.bloombergspace.com

For more information or sales enquiries email: vickywrightart@gmail.com

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