Daphne Wright: Expectations

Frith Street Gallery presents an exhibition of new works by Daphne Wright, it follows the artist’s recent major presentation at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

Wright is known for her multi-narrative sculptural works using a variety of techniques and media, including tinfoil, plaster, unfired clay, sound and video. She is curious about how a range of languages and materials can probe often unspoken human preoccupations. Concerned with boundaries and the transitory areas of life, she explores childhood and adulthood, as well as the spaces and borderlines between life and death. Animals, plants and inanimate objects often stand in for humans in her practice.

The exhibition features several new sculptures including an important installation, meticulously cast from life in Jesmonite, entitled Sons and Couch (2025).