The New York Times Style Magazine Australia: An Insider’s Guide to Sydney Contemporary 2023
AUGUST 2023
New Zealand artist Grace Wright’s large-scale abstract paintings reveal an intense layering of gesture, colour, overlapping forms and rhythm. Whilst wholly abstract, fleeting references to historical painting or fantasy games are present, creating new worlds for viewers to explore.
Ocula: Sydney Contemporary 2022: Advisory Selections
SEPTEMBER 2022
Grace Wright's painting Views For A Flower (2022) suggests a mass of what could be deities, dragons, or dragonflies, commingling above a lake at sunset. The interplay of light and shadow has all the drama of a Baroque landscape or a Chinese silk painting, but the image never fully coalesces into something figurative.
Yavuz Gallery: Announcing representation of Grace Wright
MAY 2022
Yavuz Gallery is pleased to announce representation of New Zealand artist, Grace Wright.
Taipei Dangdai and Art Basel Hong Kong 2022 mark Wright’s first presentation in North Asia. The artist’s first solo exhibition at Yavuz is scheduled for early 2023.
Ocula: Melbourne Art Fair: Artwork Selections 2022
FEBRUARY 2022
Graduating from Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland with an MFA in 2019, Grace Wright is a New Zealand artist whose lyrical abstraction has caught the attention of the global art market in the last few years.
Ocula: Explore Sydney Contemporary: Artwork Highlights
NOVEMBER 2021
Truth and Paradise is a wonderful example of Tauranga-born Grace Wright's playful teasing of art history. The composition's moody chiaroscuro suggests the arrival of a Greek god or the revelation of a Christian miracle. But instead of giving us Rubens or Titian, the work implodes into a swarm of gestural squiggles that owe more to Mary Weatherford or Albert Oehlen.
Art Collector: Artist Profile – Grace Wright: Enchanted Ecstasy
JULY – SEPTEMBER 2021
When Auckland-based artist Grace Wright travelled to New York for the first time, she kept returning to Albert Oehlen’s Home and Garden exhibition at the New Museum. Struck by the German painter’s command of colour and form, Wright felt his work “contained a kind of exultation of gesture, a tension and release in the composition.”
Ocula: Grace Wright’s Painted Cacophonies Entice and Repel in Equal Measure
OCTOBER 2021
Grace Wright's gestural paintings, erupting with colour and swirling movement, are situated in the trajectory of Abstract Expressionism. A studio visit with the New Zealand artist confirms they engage with much more.
Art Collector: Pull Focus interview (video)
Our Pull Focus video series takes its lead from our print magazine feature of the same name. Here, we focus in on what makes a particular artwork WORK as art. Watch Briony Downes in conversation with Grace Wright about the artist’s work Harmonic End, 2021.
Woman Magazine: The Art of Grace
FEBRUARY 2021
Painter Grace Wright’s canvasses are full of expression and movement, and the art world is taking notice. She talks to Dionne Christian about her creative journey.
Art News profile: Pure Energy
SUMMER 2020
Taking cues from Western art history and Eastern spirituality, from music and dance, painter Grace Wright wants her audience to experience the harmony of a higher plane while remaining grounded in the body. Nansi Thompson speaks to her…
Eyecontact: Exuberantly Rococo Wright
21 SEPTEMBER 2020
Wright's vigorous images go beyond self-expression in the sense that there is a strong sense of exuberant fantasy—a convulsive otherworldliness—surprisingly not grounded in interiority…
Art Collector: Gow Langsford picks up painter Grace Wright
APRIL 2020
Auckland gallery Gow Langsford announces Grace Wright as the latest artist joining its strong stable…
Gow Langsford Gallery: 10 questions
APRIL 2020
Gow Langsford Gallery is pleased to announce that we are now representing Grace Wright. We asked her 10 questions in relation to her practice, what inspires her and her feelings around the current lockdown.
Fashion Quarterly: Four Ways To Wear
25 FEBRUARY 2019
I see my work as being a very separate entity to what I wear. While I bring my art into the world, it has a unique life outside myself. Hence while my work is so colourful, I often wear black…
Homestyle: Rolling in the Deep
22 MARCH 2018
Lately, artist Grace Wright has been interested in painting as kind of a spiritual experience, and her large-scale works certainly do urge you to expand your mind…
M2 Woman: Your Say
MARCH/APRIL 2018
Grace Wright’s energetic works combine movement and colour in a feast for the eyes. She recently completed a residency at Hawke’s Bay gallery Parlour Projects where she completed an ambitious 11x6m work inspired by the region...
Uno magazine: Grace Wright
24 APRIL 2018
Grace Wright’s energetic works combine movement and colour in a feast for the eyes. She recently completed a residency at Hawke’s Bay gallery Parlour Projects where she completed an ambitious 11x6m work inspired by the region...
The Denizen: Grace wright's artist in residence exhibition opens soon at parlour projects
30 MAY 2017
Colour is a key element of Grace Wright’s work. The young painter graduated from Elam with honours in 2014 and has since held multiple solo and group exhibitions throughout the country, gaining a remarkable reputation in the process...
Pigment Studio: friday inspiration
23 JUNE 2017
A few weeks ago I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing the incredibly talented painter, Grace Wright, who is the current artist-in-residence at Parlour Projects in Hastings. We talked about her recent body of work as well as her journey through her degree in fine arts and her painting process...
Tearaway Art kit: Grace Wright
24 JANUARY 2017
I see painting as a construction process. I start with a colour, and then build upon it, contrasting and harmonising each layer until the final work surfaces. I don’t know what it’s going to look like when I start. The writer Jan Verwoert talked about artist Tomma Abts in this way. The tension between intention and intuition allows the final work to ‘emerge.’...
stuff: art collector alert - here's five kiwi artists who are going places
10 JULY 2016
There was a time when abstract expressionist painting was completely out of fashion. So much of it had been done around the world that the style seemed exhausted. Grace Wright is one of a number of young New Zealand artists who are giving gestural painting a new lease of life. Anyone can splash paint around – the challenge is to make art, not a mess....
Elam highlights: connectivity sparks early career success
JULY 2016
The snowball effect speaks of something, initially small in significance, building upon itself, gaining momentum and increasing in size, substance and impact. For Elam alumna Grace Wright, since graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in 2014, opportunities have emerged exponentially as a result of her involvement in other projects....