Sculptor, born in Ireland, who attended Sligo Regional Technical College, 1981–5; Dublin National College of Art & Design, 1985–7; Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic, 1989–91. In 1991–2 was awarded a Cheltenham Fellowship, in 1992–3 a British-Rome Scholarship in Sculpture. In 1993–4 Wright undertook the Diaspora Project, a commission from the Living Arts Project, funded by the Irish Arts Council, and won a Manchester Metropolitan University Fellowship, funded by the Henry Moore Foundation. Mixed shows included Yeats Gallery, Sligo, 1985; The Gymnasium, Goldsmiths’, 1991; and Making It at Tate Gallery, Liverpool, 1995. Had a solo show at Cornerhouse, Manchester, 1994; Domestic Shrubbery, a solo travelling show, was at Castlefield, Manchester, 1995; with an exhibition at New Art Centre Sculpture Park, East Winterslow, in 2001.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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