CV Dr Chris A. Wright May 2021
drcawright@yahoo.com 07715 175249 www.chriswright.co.uk
I make enquiries into the nature of things, especially the concept of borders and in-between spaces, through different media but especially sound. Sound has a shape that you can hold, roll around, taste, smell, feel, hear and allow your imagination to take you on a journey. Based in the East Midlands, UK, I am an interdisciplinary artist working with sound, film, photography, performance and drawing. Currently, my main practice and research concerns sound and its relationship to time and space, especially at the intersection with the body.
2023
Traversée3 residency and exhibition, Broadway Gallery, Nottingham. Supported Near Now, Broadway
Traversée exhibition, Saint Nicolas, Caen with Le Labo des Arts/Hatchery Artists. Supported Le Labo des Arts
Traversée Residency, Le Labo des Arts/Hatchery Artists Caen, France. Supported Le Labo des Arts
Portail at Platform Athens. Plot curated by Jackie Berridge
Unplace in Unheard Landscapes pub. Gstaad
Traversée residency and exhibtion, Broadway Gallery, Nottingham. Supported Near Now, Broadway
Out Loud FKL conference, Switzerland (academic paper)
Un-place in book publication Unheard pub. Galaad
Small talk in One Minute films, Berlin
Lode Broadway Gallery, Nottingham. Supported Near Now, Broadway
Re-imagine Derby schools project, Artcore Gallery, Derby
2022
The Forgotten in The Power of Ten with Jaw, Athens Platform 2022
The Forgotten in ART publication
Territory at Home symposium, University of Gloucester
Watery Ways/Bleak Place self-directed residency on English waterways
Pebble and Hold Me in bag.play.art at Candid Gallery, London
Artnuary Challenge with Hatchery Artists creativity month, a work a day
2021
Fold/Unfold in Soundscapes of Work and Play Essay pub. Galaad
Note Running Artfully Network conference, Fermynwoods (environmental poem)
The Melbourne Letters Melbourne festival outreach collaborative project, supported Derby Council (Sound commission)
Re-imagine schools project, Artcore with Derby Schools
Express Yourself schools project, Artcore with Derby Schools
Interfluent, Waiting and I thought everything was the same in Normal Service Will Be Resumed Hatchery Artists, Artcore Gallery, Derby (https://app.cloudpano.com/tours/RbQ7TmEo5E) curator/artist
(https://app.cloudpano.com/tours/RbQ7TmEo5E) (ACE supported)
Interfluent, Waiting and I thought everything was the same in Normal Service Will Be Resumed Hatchery Artists, Dragonfly Gallery, Norfolk Online exhibition: ACE supported))
Small Talk in One Minute Films British Film Institute archive
Unplace FKL conference, Blois, France (paper via zoom)
2020
Artist talk faciltitated by Chris Wright with Dee Shiels, Helen Stevenson and Linda Duvall
Artist talk faciltitated by Chris Wright with Jackie Berridge, Mary Hayes and Helen Lees
She'd Online exhibition Supported by Artcore, Derby
She'd part 2 Online exhibition. Supported by Artcore, Derby
2019
Winter Narratives Artist residency, Vadodara, India
Encountering/It is as it was, InDialogue, Lincoln (sound installation and paper)
In The Hole Duvall’s residency, InDialogue, Lincoln (paper)
Fold/Unfold, FKL conference, Italy (paper)
Urban Flows and Non-Flows in Different Rhythms pub. Galaad (publication)
Summer Lodge Residency, Nottingham Trent University
Resonation#1 & #2, Alchemies of Research, Birmingham (sound performance)
Listening to Urban Space, EVA conference, London (paper and publication)
Wording contribution in Convocations, Helsinki (site-specific writing)
Wording contribution in Convocations, Venice (site-specific writing)
Small Talk in OneMinute Films, Salto TV, The Netherlands (film)
Territory at Platforms, Athens (sound/video)
Sonic Site II - cello (Sharman-Dunn) and clarinet (Wright) (project)
2018
Sonic Topologies in In Cammino verso Il Silenzio (essay)
Glorious Corruption through Interdisciplinary Approaches University of Wolverhampton (paper)
Samantha’s & It was in where-how’s, The Hole, New York (photograph)
Sur et Sous, Grenier a Sel, Honfleur (sound installation)
Dialogues Honfleur (performance with Louise Garland)
Auditour, HMS, Nottingham (sound installation)
Creative Confessional with Louise Garland, Nottingham (live art)
Here, there PhD takeover, Birmingham School of Art
Tenuto, Birmingham School of Art. (participatory sound performance)
Ergh mmm & Estuary English Birmingham City Gallery (Sound installation & drawing)
Inside Outside, Thresholds: an adjacent possible, The Tapestry, Liverpool (installation)
Small Talk in Vol. 9, Oneminutefilms, North Wales
Small Talk in OneMinute (selection Vol. 1 to 9), curated Kerry Baldry, HMS, Nottingham 2018 Sonic Site, collaborative research project with Ed McKeon, Birmingham
Meet the Artist www.cvaneastmidlands.co.uk
EVA Programming committee, London
2017
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Contemporary Art Research, Birmingham School of Art
Encountering/It is as it was Cagliari, Sardinia (sound installation)
In The Hole residency, Saskatoon, Canada
Not The Hole Story at Losing Ground Conference, University of Warwick (paper)
Curating the Idea (Golden, the sculptural nature of silence), Curating the Contemporary.org (essay)
A Collective Intake of Breath Listening after Pauline Oliveros Symposium, Leeds University (paper)
Drift and Untold, Art-Athina Platforms, Greece (video installation and photograph)
Urban Flows and Non-Flows, FKL conference, Cagliari, Sardinia (paper)
The Identity of the Everyday in Sound and Soundscapes pub. Galaad (essay)
Five to Watch https://www.axisweb.org/five2watch/2017/five2watch-language/
EVA Programming committee, London
2016
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Contemporary Art Research, Birmingham School of Art
a-n Critical Writing bursary for Neon, Grundy Gallery, Blackpool
Making music with light. Electronic short course, Music Hackspace London
Encountering/it is as it was Harrington Mill Studio Gallery (sound installation)
Small Talk, All-in-one loop projected show, Chiari, Italy (Film)
Under One Minute Volume 9 Directors Lounge, Berlin (Film)
Under One Minute Volume 9 Cinema Experimental, Lisbon (Film)
Under One Minute Volume 9 at Light Night Liverpool (Film)
2015
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Contemporary Art Research, Birmingham
Digital Tourism CITAR Journal, Volume 7 (essay)
Sonic Topologies, SounDay University of Urbino, Italy
Anywhere is Everywhere, A Virtual Traveller’s Tale, EVA, British Computer Society (paper and publication)
The Identity of the Everyday, Soundscapes and Sound Identities, Italy (paper)
Plot 74 Harrington Mill Studio Gallery (curator)
Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know Harrington Mill Studio Gallery (curator)
Palimpsestuous Nottingham Castle Open (sculpture)
Begin under the Flyover The Excursionist, B-side Symposium (provocation)
Passage For Bees Winterbourne House, Birmingham (Sound installation)
Passage For Bees Haden Hill House, Sandwell. (Sound installation)
2014
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Contemporary Art Research, Birmingham
University of Wolverhampton. Visiting Lecturer, Fine Art Contextual Studies
The Value of Failure as a Methodology or How to Fail Successfully, Nottingham Contemporary (paper)
Urban Sunrise Hanover Project, University of Preston. (Image publication)
Things happen, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham. (Photographic installation)
Summer Lodge residency, NTU, Nottingham
Land Strategies and theCommons HMS, Nottingham (self-directed residency)
2013
PhD Fine Art and Philosophy, (practice-led, part-time)
Thesis: The Presence of Absence and Other States of Space, Staffordshire University,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Contemporary Art Research, Birmingham
University of Wolverhampton. Visiting Lecturer, Fine Art Contextual Studies
The Narrated Present The Collection, Lincoln (paper)
Column tAd Gallery, Texas, USA. (Photograph)
Play series. Brewhouse, Burton-on-Trent, UK. (Sculpture)
Parallel Horizons , Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London (film of installation)
You are here Stoke-on-Trent (Site-specific installation)
2012
At Home Today, 12 x 12 firstfloorunder, Milan, Italy (Photograph)
Badedammen Tarpey Gallery, Midlands Open, UK. (Photograph).
Grass is Greener (on the other side) Blank Media, Manchester, UK. (Installation)
2010
Staffordshire University. Visiting lecturer, Fine Art
Re-Semble (residency with Veronica West) Derby. Arts Council supported.
Artist Residency, Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway
Artist talk School of Art, Stavanger, Norway
Flaskepost Stavanger, Norway and internet. (Sound performance)
Grass is Greener ZOOart, Cuneo, Italy. (Archisculptural Performative installation)
Play series Waterside Open, Manchester. (Sculpture)
Taking Off and Landing AV Festival Newcastle. (Film)
Grass is Greener Departure Gallery, London. (Archisculptural Performative installation)
This is the place where…. in Architectural Disorder, Ovada Gallery, Oxford. (Installation)
2009
Place: The Future was Here OneDay Sculpture symposium, New Zealand (paper)
Constellation MIC Auckland, New Zealand (Interactive light installation)
This is the place where.., Perhaps Something, Perhaps Nothing Leeds Met Gallery, UK
Taking Off and Landing Short Shorts, Leeds UK. (Film)
2008
Chu Unoh Conjunctions 08 Stoke on Trent (Installation)
Taking Off and Landing Birmingham ArtsFest08. (Film)
Play series, Cupola Gallery, Sheffield. (Sculpture)
Taking Off and Landing Empire Gallery, London. (Film)
2007
New Significances Up The Wall, Chester. (Light interventions)
EDUCATION
2008 - 2013 PhD Fine Art and Philosophy, (practice-led, part-time). Thesis: The Presence of Absence and Other States of Space . Staffordshire University, Faculty of Art and Creative Technologies
Principal Supervisor: Professor Douglas Burnham
External examiner: Dr. Francis McKee
My research argues that absence has an underlying presence that links the territorialized space of the non-place and the interstitial space of the border zone. It is posited that disturbed areas are created that interrupt, amongst other things, placial identity. It was also argued that the term ‘non-place’ has a limited validity in contemporary society. As a fine art, practice-led study, viewing space was continually questioned both with regard to my own practice and to other, mostly contemporary, artists. This was an interdisciplinary study and referenced fine art, philosophy, social and cultural theory, geography and critical theory.
2008 Postgraduate Certificate in Research Methods, Staffordshire University
Modules: Directed Study, Research Skills, Comparative Research Methodology
2006 -2007 MA Fine Art (Distinction) Staffordshire University, Course Leader: Professor Ian Brown (Common Culture)
Course Leader: Associate Professor Ian Brown
Modules: Contemporary Curating, Contextual Studies, Masters Project. Research Dissertation ‘Identity of Location’ looks at the identity of location through a dialogue between place and non-place and was a practice-based research that used light and immersive environments as a common theme.
2004-2005 BA (Hons) Fine Art (2.1) Staffordshire University
2002-2004 HND Fine Art (Distinction) Macclesfield College, School of Art, Cheshire, UK
Research dissertation (5000 words) ‘See the Silence’ comparing the uses of the pause or rest in music and the silence represented in visual art.
