Since 2002, Caroline Wright has made site specific, multi disciplinary work that broadly explores human communication. Much of her work looks at the relationship we each have with the outside world, and with each other be this through the senses and/or the body as material. Her practice, which employs performance, drawing, lens based media and installation, addresses the effect of outside influences and experiences on our actions and behaviour.

In examining structures of power and control, Caroline asks questions of assumed knowledge and by infiltrating (and subverting) assumptions she attempts to change patterns of behaviour and ritual within human interaction. She explores from the perspective of both observer and participant and is interested in changes that occur when the audience becomes involved in a work.

Caroline intends her work to engage the viewer to a degree in which it may alter their perceptions of ritual. Her pieces operate with subtlety, proposing small but significant shifts; performances and installations offer gentle but persistent variation for the artist and audience alike through time. These concerns have led to works employing one or all of the senses, in particular use of the voice, most pieces inclining towards minimal, quiet encounters between the artist and the public.

Although it is people and their communicative relationships that are the central concern in Caroline’s practice, her work is also responsive to site and through research into specific environments, she frequently creates pieces where her central ideas are sourced solely from place. In this respect she embeds specifity into pieces that enable them to resonate with communities on many levels – the spatial, physical, conscious and unconscious.

It is the small things – the momentary pauses, questioning standard responses, the realization that habitual behaviour has altered, the unexpected reaction that are of interest. The expected becomes a journey of the unexpected. Embedded in Caroline’s work are the triggers to these reactions.

Recent commissions and exhibitions include Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, Arnolfini, Bristol; home, London; firstsite, Colchester, Camberwell Arts Festival, London; soundworks, Cork, Ireland; Kunsterhaus Metternich, Koblenz, Germany and Visions Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.