Emily Power & Andrea V. Wright

About

Power and Wright share a process of repurposing. As a medium, Power amasses a variety of discarded or obsolete packaging materials such as industrial cardboard tubes - often discovered when they have been trashed - and presents scaled up sculptures of manufactured objects. V. Wright's series 'Precarious Conditions of Uncertainty’ is built with off cuts of her previous works and objects from her life that have supposedly reached the end of their use.

Emily Power: Fuse/File/Filter

Power is currently working on scaled up sculptures of manufactured objects - created after amassing collected materials - to build a fabricated but mute scene. There are habitually repetitive elements within the works’ structure and surface features. She is experimenting with ways to offset sculptural objects against one another and is also reincorporating text into certain new works. For Glass Cloud Gallery, Power presents a body of work in which she has been playing with subtle surface finishes such as a padded air vent and a 2.2 m nail file coated in salt. There are two oversized 17 amp fuses at the base, acting as conduits for a potential flow/charge.

Emily Power (b. London, UK) lives and works in London. She graduated from BA Fine Art, Middlesex University (2003). Selected installations include Power’s largest scale artwork to date, a wallpaper installation entitled You, continuing, William Morris gallery, London (2005). Selected group exhibitions include Modern Finance, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London (2019).

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Andrea V. Wright: Elastic Defense IIII & V

‘Elastic Defence’ was created during lockdown as part of a series of works called ‘Precarious Conditions of Uncertainty’. ‘Walking to my studio in isolation everyday allowed me to see the streets in a different way and I realised that I could be more open to my surroundings than with people around - part of my own defence mechanism was released and with recycling centres closed I noticed discarded objects, unwanted, broken, whose usefulness has supposedly been reached. I wanted to re-use and re-purpose these objects that I felt a deep affinity with, and that included my own previous works of sculpture that had achieved its purpose and been discarded within my studio, even off-cuts that I had saved for some reason but put aside until now. We have created a culture in which objects are manufactured to be discarded rather than re-used, only to exploit more resources to manufacture more objects with a limited life. As visionaries, artists can lead the way in so many aspects of creativity, often using an economy of means, appropriating materials for re-invention.’ — Andrea V Wright

Andrea V. Wright (b. Birkenhead, Wirral, UK) is a multi-disciplinary visual artist based in London. She graduated with a BA from Chelsea College of Art & Design in 1994 and embarked on a career in fashion, styling and music working with magazines such as The Face, Arena and Italian Vogue before reengaging with her art practice in 2010. Since graduating with Distinction with a MFA, Fine Art, Bath School of Art & Design in 2016 she has been invited to exhibit in London at Arthouse1, The Koppel Project, ’New Relics’ at Thames Side Studios, Prevent This Tragedy at Von Goetz, Post Institute curated by Dateagle Art and ‘Index’ curated by ThorpStavri. Andrea had her first Solo Show in 2019 at Galeria Nordes, Spain and was recently selected for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017, Royal Society of Sculptors Bursary Award 2017/18 and the Ingram Collection Purchase Prize 2019. Andrea has been accepted for the PADA residency in Lisbon, Portugal in 2021.