Daphne Wright (born 1963) is an Irish visual artist, who makes sculptural installations using a variety of techniques and media to explore how a range of languages and materials can be used to probe unspoken human preoccupations.
"[4] As described by Robert Preece, "Using a wide range of materials and techniques—plaster, tin foil, video, printmaking, found objects, and performance—she creates beautiful and rather eerie worlds that feel like the threshold to somewhere new.
[6][7] In this body of work Wright creates worlds that are beautifully eerie: familiar objects from everyday life come under the artist's scrutiny including buggies, houseplants, tall homegrown sunflowers, a fridge and a child's drawing.
Recent exhibition highlights include: 2022: Hotspot, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome; No Time to Spare, Tap-gol Museum of Art, Seoul Welfare Center for the Elderly; 2021: Portals, former Public Tobacco Factory – Hellenic Parliament Library and Printing House, a collaboration between the Hellenic Parliament and ΝΕΟΝ, Athens, Greece; 2020: A quiet mutiny - persists, Frith Street Gallery, London (solo); Infinite Sculpture: From the Antique Cast to the 3D Scan, Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon; 2019: Daphne Wright: a quiet mutiny, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (solo); Infinite Sculpture: Casts and Copies from the antique to today, Musée des Beaux Arts, Paris; The Size of Thoughts, White Conduit Projects, London; RWA Sculpture Open, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol; Domestic Bliss, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow; 2017: Daphne Wright: Prayer Project, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, MA (solo); Emotional Archaeology, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (solo); Kapı Çalana Açılır, Abdülmecid Efendi Köşkü, Üsküdar, Istanbul; 2016: Emotional Archaeology, Arnolfini, Bristol and National Trust, Tyntesfield (solo); 2015: At a time, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick (solo); Qwaypurlake, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton; Plura (Project Spaces), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; 2010: Frith Street Gallery, London (solo); 2009: The Prayer Project, The Quad Gallery, Derby, 2006: Sires, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland (solo).
Wright has produced a series of large-scale commissions and her work is housed in many collections internationally; 'Still life' at Hanbury Hall, Worcester,[11] 'Plura', South Tipperary County Council and IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art,[12][13] 'Stallion', VISUAL Carlow, Ireland,[14] 'Home Ornaments', Gorbals, Glasgow, in association with CWZG Architects and The Artworks Programme and GOMA, Glasgow,[15] 'Theses Talking Walls ' New Art Centre, Salisbury,[16] 'Prayer Project' Derby with Picture This Bristol,[17] and 'Garden of Reason', Ham House and Garden, Richmond.