Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
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New Course program / APRL 2022<br />
Danielle Wright<br />
UK<br />
www.daniellewright.co.uk<br />
About<br />
Danielle Wright is a fine artist, graphic design and visual<br />
communicator, and occasional philosopher. Working in<br />
whatever media seems most appropriate at the time,<br />
Danielle’s current practice includes drawing, print, collage,<br />
photography both with and without a camera, creative code<br />
and motion design. What ties these works together is a near<br />
pathological avoidance of making all the decisions, combined<br />
with a rejection of what is usually expected, instead exploring<br />
the potential of the process of creation.<br />
Drawings are guided by rules and structure, working with<br />
modular forms and iterative, minor alterations. Prints<br />
are one-of-a-kind, with a focus on producing intriguing<br />
accidental patterns and texture. Photographic experiments<br />
including deliberate but largely uncontrolled distortion of the<br />
visual field, and photograms, made in the darkroom, using<br />
the qualities of found materials mixed with time and light.<br />
In her digital work it is rare to find a piece of creative code<br />
or motion graphics that doesn’t rely heavily on ‘random’,<br />
‘wiggle’, or ‘turbulent displace’.<br />
Danielle has postgraduate qualifications in Philosophy<br />
(MA), and Design for Visual Communication (PGCert), and<br />
undergraduate degrees in Fine Art, and Politics, Philosophy<br />
and History (PPH, not PPE!). This mixed education of<br />
academic and creative pursuits has left Danielle perpetually<br />
sceptical of the stated intentions usually accompanying<br />
creative work, yet continuing to search for meaning in her<br />
own collaborations which chaos and chance.<br />
Choice vs. Chance: Discuss<br />
I applied to <strong>Arteles</strong> with an open goal: to find a way to join<br />
up all the art things I do and make sense of them as a single<br />
creative practice. I looked forward to finding time to work<br />
without distractions, without computers and equipment; just<br />
me and too many art supplies, and friendly new eyes to help<br />
me see more clearly.<br />
Being at <strong>Arteles</strong>, watching the winter shoot straight through<br />
spring, into what in England would be the most glorious<br />
summer, the landscape took a magical form, became a<br />
metaphor for my emotional state as I dug deep into my art.<br />
As the melting snow flowed along spontaneous streams,<br />
passing the still half-buried stone circle, down the driveway<br />
and into the fields below, I found painting. Large painting.<br />
Painting using great streams of acrylic and water. Painting<br />
taking real physical effort to create, which caused terrible<br />
back pain until I discovered dancing-while-painting, to shake<br />
out the sediment in my bones.<br />
I found what I was looking for and more. Not only focus and<br />
direction in the work I came with, and beyond my renewed<br />
love of paint; I found poetry in the landscape, metaphor<br />
in nature, writing as a meditative practice, walking as a<br />
reflective exercise. And I found friends, I hope, for life.<br />
Since <strong>Arteles</strong> I have been appreciating all the shades of<br />
green spring has to offer and trying to hold on to the magic<br />
of the Finnish countryside. But it is not easy, being back at<br />
home. Home is not the same now.