Daphne Wright
Subtitle: emotional archaeology
By: edited by Josephine Lanyon
Contributors: Lanyon, Josephine; RHA Gallagher Gallery (Dublin, Ireland); National Trust (Great Britain); Arnolfini Gallery
Publisher: Arnolfini
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Bristol, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780956888631
Subjects: Exhibitions; Installations (Art)
Other titles: Emotional archaeology
Description: Daphne Wright is a contemporary artist who has developed an approach to her work that involves intensive research and psychological engagement. This publication, the first survey of a practice she has developed over more than twenty years, considers her work as?emotional archaeology? which, in media including sculpture, installation and sound, sculpture, drawing, photographs and film? aims to uncover hidden truths. The book includes two interviews with Daphne Wright as well as new essays by Penelope Curtis, Director of Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, and Xa Sturgis, Director of Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and Josephine Lanyon, curator of the exhibition, 'Emotional Archaeology'. 00Exhibition: Arnolfini, Bristol, United Kingdom (30.09.-31.12.2016) / Tyntesfield National Trust, Bristol, United Kingdom (10.09.-20.09.2016) / Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ierland (17.01.-26.02.2017).
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Arnolfini, Bristol: 30 September-31 December 2016 ; The National Trust, Tyntesfield: 10 September - 20 November 2016 ; Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin: 17 January - 26 February 2017.

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Table of contents: title: Foreword / Kate Brindley; title: The Wright stuff / Brian McAvera; title: A study of emotional archaeology / Josephine Lanyon; title: Making things matter / Shirley MacWilliam in conversation with Daphne Wright; title: Soft tender scrutiny / Penelope Curtis; title: Casting corpses / Xa Sturgis.