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Irish artist Daphne Wright, Stallion, 2009.

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Daphne Wright: Emotional Archaeology

Daphne Wright’s work manoeuvres things into well-wrought but delicate doubt – shifting between taughtness and mess, it sets imagery, materials and language in constant metaphorical motion. Using a wide range of materials – plaster, tinfoil, video, printmaking, found objects and performance – she creates worlds that are beautiful and rather eerie which feel like the threshold to somewhere new.

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Daphne Wright

Daphne Wright is an Irish sculptor who makes sculptural installations using fragile materials such as tin foil, unfired clay, and plaster. She is inspired by transitory periods in life- the cusp between childhood and adulthood, the balance between life and death. This definitely reminds me of the theme of temporary. A day is just a collection of temporary moments transitioning from one to the next.

The main symbols that she uses are animals, plants, and domestic imagery. Animals and plants have a shorter lifespan than the humans they represent. Rendering common household items such as a buggy or clothes horse in unfired clay creates tension between the familiar and the fragile, evoking fleeting memories. This makes me think of my work- I wonder if I could make some objects from a similarly fragile material, and watch them waste away in front of me?

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Labios rotos.

Corría el verano de 1925 y una gran embarcación que cubría la ruta Nueva York – Londres había zarpado hacía días desde la ciudad norteamericana con rumbo a las islas británicas. Entre los viajeros se encontraba una joven que no se había deshecho de las lágrimas en ningún momento, que miraba atrás como si no quisiera dejar su hogar, como si al otro lado del gran océano no fuera a encontrar una…

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Daphne Wright, Stallion, 2009 by jacquemart Via Flickr: The Arnolfini, Bristol

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Daphne Wright, Where do Broken Hearts Go?, 2000 by jacquemart Via Flickr: The Arnolfini, Bristol

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Daphne Wright

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Tiina Karppi Writes about Daphne Wrights current exhibition on at the Arnolfini in , Bristol. All on : http://www.majestigal.com/magazine/daphnewright