TULCA : 2008
Galway, Ireland





TULCA is festival of art across the town of Galway with performance, sound, visual art and literature with annually appointed guest curators. Untitled (believe) was selected and shown in the windows of the main festival gallery.

DRAWING THE LINE : 2007
Friends School Gallery, Saffron Waldon

A show of drawings of 1.5 metres wide x lengths of between one and eight metres using gel pen on paper. I have been trying to understand exactly what it means to draw a line within a predetermined set of self-imposed rules, some of which form the titles of each work.

MAGNETIC MESSAGES : 2006
The Taxi Gallery, Cambridge

Click here to visit the Taxi Gallery- select Magnetic Messages from site



Tokyo is a city of contradictions. There are neon signs surrounding every road junction, broadcasting information to the vast numbers of people moving around the streets. The urban landscape of concrete towers can be oppressive whilst the super efficient metro system transports the population across and around the city hub.

To the contrary, the influence of Buddhism and the restrained nature of the Japanese character, where consideration for the good of everyone is paramount and of more importance than concern for the self, seems at odds with the fast moving, message-giving, city culture.

This contradiction is highlighted particularly in the plight of the Japanese Tea Ceremony, a tradition that honours the principles of harmony, respect, tranquility and purity. The young reject the messages imparted through this dying custom as they challenge their roots and heritage for the influence of western life.

The taxi is a place of communication, allowing its occupants a place to confess, discuss, exchange, contemplate and share information. The proclaiming magnetic letters affixed to Abbey Taxi shift the vehicle’s role from container of words to one of messenger, delivering information to those outside.

Untitled was made by Caroline Wright in response to a period of time spent in Tokyo, Japan as part of the Norwich School of Art and Design and Asagaya School of Art and Design exchange programme. The work exists in two formats - as a text work and in green neon signage.

GIVE GROUND: 2004
A commission by Creative Arts East for the Reflections Exhibition












Give Ground resulted from a collaboration between myself and poet and writer Andrea Holland. We chose to make work about Dunwich, a village situated on the eroding Suffolk coast, a place that was equidistant between our homes. Andrea’s poem Regress reflects the reducing landscape and is accompanied by photographs and a soundwork that record our conversation as we traverse the pebbled beach. In the exhibition which toured to several rural sites over a period of several months, the work was shown as an installation of postcards, book, deckchair with screen printed text and soundtrack.

Regress

We came from the sea and peopled the land,
though at Dunwich this was an interim
migration. Here the sea insists on a reckless
return; whole churches, houses, cliffs called
back. Here tombs emptied as if in apocolypse;
their bones holding up the delicate sky off-shore.
Now there’s nothing to Dunwich but a torn-off
cliff. We are that small. And we have, all of us,
so far to fall.

Andrea Holland

MAKING ART WORK : 2003
Group exhibition, Wingfield Arts, Suffolk














On researching into the history of sign language and lip reading, I became aware of a story of a monk who lived in the sixteenth century named Pedro Ponce de Lion. He had a member of his congregation who was both deaf and dumb and could therefore neither confess his sins nor receive forgiveness. The monk set about creating a new ‘language’ based on the movement of the hands and observing the movement of the mouth and lips during speech. This rudimentary form of lip reading and sign language is said to be one of the earliest records of the skill.















Mouthpiece is a series of wax casts taken from a speaking mouth as the words ‘Bless me Father for I have sinned” are spoken. They are positioned at head height as seen from a church kneeler.

photography : Doug Atfield

SPEECHMARKS : 2002














Speechmarks was the exhibition of MA work at the culmination of my studies at Norwich School of Art and Design in 2002. The show consisted of several pieces – black and white images taken using my mouth as a camera (mouth exposures)made in an attempt to capture the effect of speech visually, a photographic sequence entitled I am a Camera and a sound work, also Speechmarks, made with Elise Chohan an Mmus at the University of East Anglia.
















The last work was made to explore the frequencies heard by the human ear from the perspective of someone with some deafness.











photography : Doug Atfield

IDA BRANSON EXHIBITION : 2002
Millfield School, Sussex














This exhibition featured work selected from students graduating from postgraduate courses across the UK. The inclusion of the Speechmarks mouth exposures allowed me to change these negative images into their positive counterpart.