Ella Wright: Still Moving

13 Feb-28 Mar 2026

PV 12 Feb 2026, 6-8pm

Overview

“Sunlight that glares, bathes, half-conceals. A furtive, lustreless moon. The sky clouded over; violet and blue tints in the clouds. A warm and rustling wind; a wind that tugs at wild grasses. Plumes of blossom, or delicate sprays of blossom, which glow even in the shade. Foliage drenched in a fragrance so powerful it becomes visible as foam. The ornamentation of leaves; petals like white satin. Glittering stamens, their throats blushed pink, arranged in melodic, rhythmic patterns. These are all paraphrased fragments from early in Marcel Proust’s novel, 'In Search of Lost Time', but they could easily be transcriptions of paintings from Ella Wright’s new presentation, ‘Still Moving’. Proust produces dense, digressive descriptions of the natural world enriched with sensual pleasure. Wright’s paintings, which flicker between abstraction and figuration, are similarly interested in how to reproduce attention to a landscape.”

— Rebecca Birrell