Porcelain Gaze (detail)
I have been an admirer of Lisa Wright's paintings for a while, and was delighted to happen across this exhibition on its penultimate day last week purely by chance whilst wandering in Fitzrovia. These paintings featuring her distinctive female figures, relate to her recent commission entitled Future Forest in collaboration with Tom Piper, (he of the Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red poppies installation at the Tower of London, and Weeping Window, which took place a year ago at the Imperial War Museum here). Future Forest was commissioned by the Forestry Commission for their centenary year, and consists of ten life-sized figures based on figures from classical mythology associated with forests created by Wright, placed around Thetford Forest in Suffolk, and enhanced in dramatic settings within the forest by Piper. The paintings here are informed by the sculptures for the Future Forest commission, and feature women and girls swathed in foliage, or displaying 'inner landscapes' to show our connection to and reliance on nature and forests, and to remind us of our duty to safeguard the ecosystems of this planet.
Porcelain Gaze
Entwined
Grace
Vanishing Point
She Contains Small Things
Shaping Herself
Lisa Wright - Infinite Forest
closed 6th November
55 Eastcastle Street
London W1
