Artist : Lisa Wright
Title : Balance of Control
Medium : oil on canvas
Dimensions : 45 x 35 cm


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Lisa Wright’s work talks about the truth of things, and how it anchors us to the very essence of human experience. Nature, nurture, truth and wonderment are all aspects that she is capable of conjuring. For her, the act of drawing is a reminder of the power of line and form to distil the complexity of the world into a single image. Painting, is an act of suspension, capturing fleeting moments of her deepest thoughts, rendering them eternal. The aspiration for Wright is for the work to evoke emotions that verbal language cannot express. Wrights practice is rooted in the rigour of observational drawing. Using her sketchbook and camera she records the everyday creating visual narratives for later paintings. Wright has spent the majority of her career chronicling the growth and development of her relationship with her children, from pregnancy to adulthood. These drawings and paintings are not just a representation of Wright’s experiences, but rather their embodiment, bringing their intangible reality into the visible world for all to recognise and relate to.

After studying at The Royal Academy Schools, London, 1990-1993, Wright moved to Cornwall, in the south west of England, where she currently lives and works. Her work has featured in numerous solo and curated group exhibitions both nationally and internationally and is held in many important corporate and private collections. Notable achievements include her appointment as the Royal Shakespeare Company artist in residence throughout the two year period of the RSC’s acclaimed ‘Histories’ cycle of plays, culminating in an exhibition at the Roundhouse- which ran concurrently with the plays- and subsequently at the Royal Academy of Arts London; consistent selection for the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition for over 20 years; inclusion in the significant ‘Art Now Cornwall’, exhibition at Tate St Ives 2008 and winning The National Open Art Prize, the Hunting Art Prize, the 2013 Threadneedle Prize and most recently Future Forest- a collaborative project with Tom Piper to celebrate the centeniary of The Forestry Commission.