Collection Title:
Here, Thriving Despite It All
Collection Context:
Here, Thriving Despite It All explores the contrast between dense urban spaces and vast natural landscapes through Wright’s travels in New York City and Joshua Tree National Park, highlighting the resilience of nature in both environments. Just as green shoots continually find ways to flourish amongst the concrete of Manhattan, Wright always finds colour there—whether in the materials of the city’s architecture or in the living world reflected in the towering glass structures of the metropolis. Here, Thriving Despite It All, echoes the artist’s experience of moving through these environments, capturing the quiet dialogue between cultivated and wild landscapes, permanence and change, and our enduring connection to the living world.
“As an artist, I am interested in the visual connections that emerge across contrasting environments—the repetition of colour, rhythm, structure, and growth—and in the quiet resilience of nature, which continues to flourish in places where it seems least expected…“Rather than documenting these places in a traditional sense, my work weaves together memories of both, focusing on capturing the resilience of nature through close observation of colour, pattern, and texture.”
Location: Studio Victoria, Australia Photography by Sarah Anderson
