Cathy Ward
& Eric Wright
Cathy Ward & Eric Wright, Installation shot of Tender Vessels, Aspex
Cathy Ward & Eric Wright 'Tender Vessels' Aspex gallery, 2009, Foreground: 'Brazen Standard' with 'Brazen Vice' in background.
Cathy Ward & Eric Wright 'Tender Vessels' Aspex gallery, 2009 Detail of 'Brazen Vice' below with 'Before the Gold Rush' above
Cathy Ward & Eric Wright , Detail of 'Before the Gold Rush'
Cathy Ward & Eric Wright 'Passing' Still from Super 8 Black /White film (4 minutes). Credits: Filming & editing Ward & Wright. Soundtrack composed and arranged by Pete Wyer Narration by L.M. Kit Carson (screen writer of Paris/Texas)
Cathy Ward & Eric Wright 'Heirloom'
Cathy Ward & Eric Wright Cathy Ward & Eric Wright 'The Brazen Standard' brass ornamentation and oil paint on firewood, 2007
CV Catharyne Ward & Eric Wright
Ward: Born: Ashford, Kent UK
Wright: Born: Mount Gilead, Ohio, USA
Solo Exhibitions:
2009 Tender Vessels, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth Emergency3 biennale winners
2005 Destiny Manifest-Eden’s End, Cafe Gallery Projects, London :Exhibition made in conjunction with a
residency at CLUI Center for Land Use Interpretation, American Land Museum, Wendover, Utah; Arts
Council of England grant for individual artists. Grizedale Arts Research & Development Grant
2004 BeauRoque, SPACE Micro Gallery, Los Angeles
2003 Gathering in the May, Standpoint Gallery, London
2002 Transromantik, The RBS Gallery, London
2002 Transromantik - Volksgeist, Mercer Union, Toronto
2000 Transromantik - The Berchtesgaden Effect, The Chamber of Pop Culture, The Horse Hospital, London
1998 Telling Tales, Upstairs at the Clerks House Gallery, London
1990 The Sperm Bank, The BANK, New York
1989 Disco Interruptus, The Roxy, New York
Group exhibitions & Art Fairs:
2010 Strange Attractor Salon- Presented by Mark Pilkington, Viktor Wynd Fine Art, London
2010 Art Paris, represented by Armand Hein at Galerie Toxic
2010 Art Brussels, represented by Armand Hein at Galerie Toxic
2009 Curators Choice- Doug Harvey Torrence Art Museum, California
2009 2 1/2D The RBS Gallery, London
2009 The Messenger, Galerie Toxic, Luxembourg
2009 Art Paris, represented by Armand Hein at Galerie Toxic
2008 Aspects of Mel’s Hole: Artists Respond to a Paranormal Land Event Occurring in Radio Space
2008 CFSU: Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, California , Curated by Doug Harvey. Project Space Artists
in Residence
2008 Enigma, Galerie Toxic, Luxembourg
2008 The Good, The Bad and The Necessary, The Chamber of Pop Culture, The Horse Hospital, London
2008 Ete ’08, Galerie Toxic, Luxembourg
2008 Sacred Pastures, The Chamber of Pop Culture, The Horse Hospital, London.
2008 Zombie Surfers, Cell Project Space, London
2008 Patterna, Vegas Gallery, London
2008 New York International Outsider Artfair, represented by The Henry Boxer Gallery, London
2008 Internal Guidance Systems – A new vanguard in Visionary Art (Touring America: 2006 - 2008)
2008 Track 16, Santa Monica; Outsider Art Center, Minneapolis; Nth Art, Alberqueque;
2008 Tag Gallery, Nashville; Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland; Gallery Gachet, Vancouver
2007 Emergency3 (biennale winners) Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
2007 Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London (touring)
2007 YeeHaw! Vegas Gallery, London Curated by Ken Pratt.
2007 Iota, Cell Project Space, London
2006 Utopia, The John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
2006 High Road, Low Roads: Anthems, Dirges, Myths, Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee Florida
2006 The 9th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Oahu, Hawaii
2005 Treehugger: Now, Romantic, Nature
2005 MAMA: Showroom for Media and Moving Art, Rotterdam, NL Curated by Ken Pratt & Boris Van
Berkham
2005 The Folk Archive,
2005 The Barbican Curve, London; MKG: Milton Keynes Gallery; Spacex Gallery; Kunsthalle Basel
Switzerland; The New Art Gallery Walsall, Aberystwyth Arts Center, Wales; The Lowry, Salford
Selected by Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane.
2005 Chthonic!: Works by Neuve Invention Artists, The Cavin Morris Gallery, New York
2004 Romantic Detachment P.S.1. Museum of Modern Art. New York, Curated by Grizedale Arts and The
Henry Moore Foundation Contemporary Projects.
2004 Work created funded by an Arts Council Grant and Grizedale Arts Residency
2004 Talespinning: Selections Fall 2004, The Drawing Center, New York
2004 The John Moores 23 - Contemporary Painting Prize, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
2001 CRASS Dial House Foundation: Exhibition of Music Memorabilia , Chamber of Pop Culture, The Horse
Hospital, London
2000 The 7th International Shoebox Sculpture Touring Exhibition 2000 – 2002
The University of Hawaii Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii; Kukui Grove Center Lihue, Hawaii; Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art Logan, Utah; National Tsing Hua University Hsin Chu, Taiwan; National Central University Taoyuan Hsien, Taiwan; American Cultural Center Taipei, Taiwan; National Cheng Kung University Tainan, Taiwan Providence; University Taichung Hsien Taiwan; University of Arkansas at Little Rock Arkansas; Wright State University Dayton Ohio; Murray State University Murray Kentucky; Art Center in Hargate Concord New Hampshire; East Hawaii Cultural Center Hilo Hawaii; Maui Arts & Cultural Center Kahului Hawaii
1999 Big Warm Open, The Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge
1999 Ornament, Upstairs at the Clerk’s House Gallery, London
1998 Sociable Realism, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, Curated by Paul Noble.
1997 Interesting Painting, City Racing, London, Curated by Paul Noble
1996 Life /Live, Musee d’ Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France, Curated by Hans Ulrich Osbrist (with
Laurence Bosse)
1996 The Whitechapel Open 1996, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1996 The Gold Mask, BANK, London
1995 Enprosex. Pierre Gauvin . Cathy Ward . Eric Wright
1995 Galerie Max Gauvin, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
1994 Whitechapel Open 1994, Chisenhale Gallery, London
1994 Lucy Smith. Cathy Ward. Eric Wright., The Heritage Centre, London UK
1989 KEY, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Center for the Arts, Alberta, Canada
Work created whilst on the Visual Fine Art Residency Programme, selected by Greg Curnoe.
Publications & catalogues:
Aspects of Mel’s hole: Artists Respond to a Paranormal Land Event Occuring in Radiospace
Catalogue conceptualised and designed by GCAC Director Andrea Harris-McGee
Published by Grand Central Press GCAC: Grand Central Arts Center 2008
With essays by the curator Doug Harvey; Margaret Wertheim, Christine Wertheim, Judy Spence
Artistic Bedfellows
Edited by Holly Crawford AC : Collaborative, NY 2008
Attached to the Mouse: Disney and Contemporary Art
Edited by Holly Crawford. Published by Roman & Littlefield 2006
Rendezvous with Density by Doug Harvey 2005
Catalogue essay for Destiny Manifest - Eden’s End
Published by Café Gallery Projects London.
The Folk Archive.
Jeremy Deller & Alan Kane. Published by Bookworks, London 2005
High Roads and Low Roads, Anthems, Dirges, Myths
Catalogue published by the Museum of Fine Arts Florida State University. 2005
Treehugger: Now, Romantic, Nature
Catalogue. Essay by Ken Pratt, Published by MAMA Showroom, Rotterdam NL 2005
Down The Local - Vincent Deary 2002
Catalogue essay for Volksgeist (Folk Ways) Published by Mercer Union, Toronto.
Key. Catalogue published by The Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Canada.
Michael Toppings July 1989
Reviews and Exhibition Essays:
Hungry ghosts in the soft machine - Re-animating Art with Ward & Wright
Essay for Tender Vessels. Doug Harvey 2009
Tender Vessels. Exhibition Review A-N Magazine. July-August Issue. Peter Bonnell 2009
Enigma Review: Mystere et boule de gomme. Les Loisirs. Gregory Cimatti 2009
Art Contemporian – L’Ete Meurtrier. D’ Letzebuerger Land. Didier Damiani 2008
Folk Festival - Cathy Ward & Eric Wright . Art Feature. WOUND Magazine issue 3. Ken Pratt 2008
Sacred Pastures : Exhibition Review. Raw Vision, Summer issue 64, John Maizels 2008
Zombie Surfers : Exhibition Review. Art Monthly. May issue, David Beech 2008
Emergency3 : A N Publications Dec 2007 & March 2008
YeeHaw Exhibitions Reviews. Time Out Martin Croomer March 2007
Destiny Manifest. Feature FLUX Magazine. April Issue Gavin Bower. 2005
Destiny Manifest - Eden’s End. Culture Wars. Gavin Bower. 2005
Destiny’s Entwined. Mark Pilkington 2005
The Way West - On the trail of the Donner Party - Eric Wright 2005
Cathy Ward & Eric Wright overview - Charlotte Cooper 2005
What’s on in Britain. Raw Vision - Outsider & Visionary Magazine. Spring 2003
The Real Home of Avante Garde Evening Standard 4th March P.20 Iain Aitch 2002
Exhibition reviews & what’s on. The Guardian Guide, November, Iain Aitch 2002
Cathy Ward & Eric Wright - partners in uneasy sculpture. Recommended exhibition Iain Aitch 2002
What’s on in Britain. Raw Vision. Outsider & Visionary Art. Fall issue 2000.
Something going on in the Woods. Bizarre Magazine. Nov issue. Edwin Pouncey. 2000
What lies beyond the Romantic? The Chamber of Pop Culture. Stephen Felmingham 2000
Fetish, Anti-Fetish,Thing. The Chamber of Pop Culture. Vincent Deary 2000
Transromantik. Evening Standard, ES Magazine, Recommended Viewing. Helen Sumpter 2000.
Essential Art - Telling Tales. The Big Issue no.308, November 2-8. Helen Sumpter. 1998
Ornament. Clerk’s House Gallery. Time Out, London. Mark Currah June 6th 1998
Television Interviews:
Eikoku Seikatsu : English Lifestyles. Cathy Ward & Eric Wright
30 minutes. Screened Japan March 1998. Director : Miki Takahashi