Carla Wright
Carla Wright is an artist living and working in East Sussex, UK. She makes ceramic sculpture, wall-based works & participatory projects that explore connection, co-operation and togetherness - through an investigation into social housing, community architecture & places of gathering.
Motifs & fragments of playgrounds & community centre murals appear throughout the work. Her practice is informed by growing up around this type of architecture and responding through immediate ceramic ‘drawings’ and larger sculptural assemblages - interconnecting & grouping of objects, navigating their way around each other with a sense of playfulness, risk & care.
Carla uses clay as a connecting material - connecting her to people, to her past & to the ground, giving her a deeper knowledge of the community and of the land. The individual works evolve through ongoing research of materials; locally found clay, granite, quartz, ironstone and plants are incorporated into the glazes & clay body.
Carla is the founder of Common Clay - a community ceramics studio that is a shared, open and experimental making space for artists working with clay, and provides clay sessions for local groups.
