Here, Thriving Despite It All
Amy Wright
1–18 october 2026
Untamed and Unclaimed, 2026, Acrylic, pastel and conté on canvas, 120x90cm
Here, Thriving Despite It All explores the contrast between dense urban spaces and vast natural landscapes through Wright's travels in New York City and Joshua Tree National Park, highlighting the resilience of nature in both environments.
“As an artist, I am interested in the visual connections that emerge across contrasting environments—the repetition of colour, rhythm, structure, and growth—and in the quiet resilience of nature, which continues to flourish in places where it seems least expected.”
Just as green shoots continually find ways to flourish amongst the concrete of Manhattan, Wright always finds colour there—whether in the materials of the city's architecture or in the living world reflected in the towering glass structures of the metropolis.
In Joshua Tree, a contrasting landscape of stillness and apparent austerity, the breaking dawn gradually reveals a rich palette of celadons, apricots, ochres, deep plum reds, and luminous blues.
“Rather than documenting these places in a traditional sense, my work weaves together memories of both, focusing on capturing the resilience of nature through close observation of colour, pattern, and texture.”
Here, Thriving Despite It All echoes the artist’s experience of moving through these environments, capturing the quiet dialogue between cultivated and wild landscapes, permanence and change, and our enduring connection to the living world.
Here, Thriving Despite It All is presented by BSG Projects.
Please join us to celebrate the opening of Here, Thriving Despite It All on Friday 2 October (6–8PM).
Amy Wright is an acclaimed artist whose prolific practice draws from her diverse background in painting, drawing, surface pattern design and floristry to conjure lively, tactile visions of the Australian landscape at its most untamed.
Wright’s work is preoccupied with the narrative possibilities of abandoned
landscapes reclaimed by nature. Untied to any one medium, Wright’s worlds evolve like ecosystems, combining acrylic, charcoal and pastel into collages of fragmented forms that coalesce to capture the essence of the whole. Each canvas is its own Wunderkammer, invoking a wilderness where planes of towering trees and organic overgrowth converge into forested theatres of sensory experience, providing the perfect stage for the drama of nature to be told.
