Lot 34 , Mark Wright, (b.1962), Landfall, 2016, oil and acrylic on canvas, 152 x 152 cm

Mark Wright
(b.1962)
Landfall, 2016
oil and acrylic on canvas
152 x 152 cm
£5,000-8,000
Landscape has been a central theme for Mark Wright since his boyhood in Northumberland and his early interest in the works of John Martin, J.M.W. Turner and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. As an artist, he continues to explore “the idea of landscape and our relationship we have to it in a post digital world”.

Curator and art historian Rosa J.H. Berland writes: "In Wright’s incandescent paintings, the convergence of landscape, an awareness of our fraught relationship with the digital world, artistic process, and imagination create a masterful body of work that exists as a reverie of abstract beauty."

Wright studied in London at St Martin’s School of Art and gained in MFA from the Royal College of Art. He has taught at University of Brighton; Loughborough University; Glasgow School of Art; Parsons Paris School of Art and Design; Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford University; University College for Creative Arts, Kent; University of Northumbria; and the Wimbledon School of Art among others.

Wright has exhibited widely in the UK as well as in the USA, Spain, Portugal and Thailand. He is represented in important collections, including those of British Airways, Deutsche Bank; Dundee Museums; the David Roberts Collection; Merrill Lynch; Montpellier Chapter Art Collection; Pfizer; the Royal College of Art; the Slade School of Art; Sony International; TI Group; and the Wellcome Trust.