Bronwyn Wright
 

Dynamic Play

Hooded

Sprite

Zone

Ziggurat Moon

 
 

Bronwyn Wright is an artist-photographer who has a long association with The Swamp on the edge of Darwin.

She has embraced digital photography, new technologies and large-scale digital printing with great energy.

Wright has exhibited

  • images from the Nickelodeon series at the IMA in Brisbane and in the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art in 2004.

  • Her Kid’s Kulture Combo images plus three videos were exhibited as part of the Suburban Edge exhibition at The Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney the same year.

  • In the exhibition Vanitas in May 2004 at the Charles Darwin University Gallery, not only are the rusted cars weathering in the Swamp but the images are also breaking down.

In 2003 Bronwyn won first prize in the ENERGEX Arbour Contemporary Art Prize with a large photo ‘4 EVER Family’.

Wright has exhibited regularly in Darwin, including

  • Sound of the Sky 2006 and Site Engagement – Contemporary Territory 2001-2002 at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory;

  • Swamp Dynamics a solo exhibition at 24HR Art Contemporary Arts Space 2001;

  • Don’t Cry East Timor at Framed Gallery in Darwin and

  • many group shows at 24 Hr Art and the Darwin Visual Arts Association over 17 years.

In 2006 she exhibited her new work, The Neverland Series in Gallery 1 at 24HR Art NT Centre for Contemporary Art.

Bronwyn is a graduate with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) from Charles Darwin University and is currently studying for her Master of Fine arts as an off-campus student with Monash University, Melbourne. She has lived in the Northern Territory for 23 years and was the lecturer and course coordinator in Graphic Design in the School of Creative Arts & Humanities at Charles Darwin University 2001 - 2005. 

She is moving back to her home country in southern NSW in June 2007.
 

"Zero" from the Neverland series

80cm x 105 cm Lambda print Edition 5

"Blurring reality and fantasy, "Zero" hints at notions of the heroic and the energy of the foreboding times we live in. The ambiguous figure is suspended half way between the world og fantasy and the real world of daily global news reports."

 

Notes on "Neverland"

The Swamp on the edge of Darwin is a ‘run amok’ place where young men like to spin out in cars & let off steam.

Moving away from the interaction and anonymous exchanges between herself and the young men in The Swamp, Bronwyn focuses on constructing images of masculine culture and mythology.

Figures hooded, helmeted and masked, sit and hover amid the ruinous debris of burned out cars decaying in The Swamp.

Blurring reality and fantasy, ‘Neverland’ explores the play of the mundane on the edge of town, but hints at notions of the heroic that mark the foreboding energy of the times we live in. This is the Neverland between fulfilment and desire.
There are eight photographic prints in the recent body of work Neverland.

Note on The Swamp as Theatre
These are constructed images using The Swamp as a stage and the wrecked cars as props. They are not documentary.