Caroline Wright's practice is based on conceptual archaeology. Her work includes live performance and visual art that is often site-responsive. She works in mediums as diverse as glass and gold as well as the human body and has made work for cities and rural spaces, for galleries, theatres, churches, on desolate uninhabited islands and for audiences of 100 and of one.
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EDUCATION
2013 Fellow, Higher Education Academy
2012 PG Certificate in Higher Education Art and Design, University of the Arts, London
2002 MA Fine Art, Norwich School of Art and Design
2000 BA Hons Fine Art, Norwich School of Art and Design
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES from 2005 – present
2013
Out of Water, PSi 19, Stanford University, USA
Soundings, Pilot Live Art Festival, Brightlingsea, Essex
The Inishlacken Project, invitation residency, Galway, Ireland
GroundUP commission, Burnley, Lancashire
2012
Trace, permanent commission at Trumpington Meadows, Cambridge for InSite Arts/TMLC
Antidote for the Lonely Diner, performance, Hunt and Darton Café, Edinburgh Festival
Open Space, firstsite Colchester and Atelier, Beaconsfield, London – performance/discussion
Manicure, Garden of Reason, Trust New Art, Ham House, Richmond
Hopscotch to Victory, LACE world record attempt East of England, producer Artsadmin
Out of Water, Holkham Beach, Norfolk, London 2012 Festival, producer Artsadmin
on tides and fathoms, film screening, The South Lookout, Aldeburgh
2011
Encounters, Fermynwoods Contemporary Arts, audio work and neon installation
Latitude Festival, Suffolk, neon installation
Trumpington Meadows, Artist in Residence for Insite Arts/TMLC
2010
Latitude Festival, Suffolk
Repeated Deaths, solo performance, Live Art Sampled, The Junction, Cambridge
Recollecting, solo exhibition, Visions Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
VERB: to read and write, Bury Art Gallery, Suffolk
2009
Twinning Households, residency Orchard Park, Cambridge
I’m on the Train, Sampled: Live Art, The Junction, Cambridge
In site | my space 5, performance, Switch, Hackney, London
2008
100 Greetings, performance, Outpost, Norwich
100 Greetings, performance, A Foundation, Liverpool Biennial
Impossible Changeling, Towner, Eastbourne
2007
Flock, St Martins Church, Colchester for Colchester Arts Centre
Voice Technology Action, performance, Netvotech Research group, York University
2006
Untitled (believe) text, Taxi Gallery, Cambridge
Voice Human Action, performance, Camberwell Arts Festival.
Conversations with Friends, performance, Arnolfini, Bristol
Manipulate, firstsite, Colchester
Breathing, one to one performance, Colchester Arts Centre
Lines of Communication, Touring Exhibition, Babylon Gallery, Ely/ The Old Hospitium, York
2005
Voice Human Action, performance, Ely Cathedral
Repeater, durational performance, Soundworks, Ireland
Conversations with Friends, home, London
Acts of Faith, Church Ale Festival, Suffolk
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS from 2003 – present
2013
on tides and fathoms, film for The Brothers, Smiths Row, Suffolk (2 person with Elin Hoyland)
ANTECHAMBER, drawings from You Can Get To Heaven From Anywhere, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London
2012
Roaming with the collective ROAM, Aid and Abet, Cambridge
Allotment 2 for Trove, MAC, Birmingham
Transformations, Smiths Row, Suffolk
2011
Great Ormond Street Hospital Exhibition, curated by AXIS
Cut and Thrust, performance for Late at Tate with Norwich Castle Museum, Tate Britain
The Inishlacken Project, Gerard Dillon Gallery, Belfast
Togra Inis Leacan, Gerard Dillon Gallery, Belfast
2010
Visual Dialogues, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery
The Late Shift, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich
Wysing Arts Contemporary: Partnering, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
Artside, CoExist Gallery @ TAP, Southend
Film screening, National Centre for Contemporary Art, St Petersburg, Russia
Respond/Reply, Town Hall Gallery, Ipswich, Suffolk
The Worcester Open, Worcester Art Gallery and Museum
Wysing Arts Contemporary: Presents, Cambridge, with C-O-L-L-I-D-E-R
The Inishlacken Project – Residency, Inishlacken Island, Galway, Ireland
2009
Triptych Papers (Drawing), The Project Space, Norwich University College of the Arts
A Working Weekend, New Work Network, Essex University
Inishlacken; a place apart, Galway Arts Centre, Ireland, Redhouse Arts Centre, U.S.A.
The Inishlacken Project – Residency, Inishlacken Island, Galway, Ireland
2003 - 2008
Mapping Voice, research collaboration, Norwich University College of Arts/York University
TULCA Arts Festival, Galway, Ireland.
The Inishlacken Project – Residency, Inishlacken Island, Galway, Irelan
Unsere Nachbarn, Kunsterhaus Metternich, Germany
Being, Visions Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2 person show with Jan Mladovsky)
Romantic Detachment, Q Gallery, Derby
Hubbub, Globe Gallery, North Shields
Ida Branson 2003 national selected student show, Millfield, Somerset
Artevent- Helmond, Netherlands
Human, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham
The Big Throw, Commissions East, Lowestoft
Breathing Spaces, Year of the Artist project, Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel
RESIDENCIES/RESEARCH/CURATION 2009 – 2013
Pilot, curator, Live Art Festival, Brightingsea, Essex (2013)
Gesture, co-curator, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, (2012-13)
East Activator, curator and coordinator, artist development and events programme - Escalator Live Art/New Work Network (2010-12)
Respond/Reply, research/publication, George Szirtes, Helen Rousseau, Phyllida Barlow (2011)
Open Space – professional development with curators Ben Borthwick/Naomi Siderfin (2011)
Arts Council England East Escalator Retreat, Wysing Arts, Cambridge (2010)
PUBLICATIONS/PAPERS/LECTURES
Sawdust and Threads: Curiosity and Knowing, lecture, Castle Museum, Norwich, 2013
Values and Rights, paper, Engage Conference, Birmingham, 2013
TRACE, publication for Trumpington Meadows, 2013
Practice Makes Perfect, paper, UAL Conference on e-Learning, September 2012
The Rant, AXIS notes, July 2011
Space and Work, paper, State University of New York, January 2009
Creative Carers: A Reflective Study, ISBN 978-0-9561008-0-1
Bridget Riley, presentation, Castle Museum, Norwich, 2010
Impossible Changeling, Exhibition Catalogue, 2008
Lines of Communication, Exhibition Catalogue, 2006
Vauxhall Gardens, Norwich School of Art and Design, 1999
In Conversation, with Louise Gray, Ben Borthwick, Anne Hilde Nesbet, Latitude Festival 2010
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Performance Art Journal No 103, January 2013
EastLife, July 2012
Festival Notes, The Times, July 26th 2010
Repeater, East Anglian Daily Times, February 2010
The Big Picture, an magazine, July/August 2008
Latitude Festival, ITV 2, 29th and 30th July 2008
RTE Gaelic Television and RTE RADIO 1, Inishlacken: a place apart 2008
The Guardian Newspaper, I didn’t know where to look, March 2005
