Finding the Familiar
amy wright
2-19 october
'I Should Have Been Crabbing At Walberswick' 2025, Amy Wright, Acrylic, charcoal, conté and pastel on Linen, Framed in Neutral Ash, 203X163CM
"“During recent travels across Europe I was continually struck by landscapes and flora that echoed the Australian environment, calling forth visceral connections to familiar places. In the scorched hillsides of Italy, the seaside gardens of Suffolk, and amongst the curated bushland of the Barcelona Botanic Gardens, I was taken back to the sighing of She Oaks along an abandoned track from pool to beach, hearing the crumple of dry gum leaves underfoot on the walk to the ‘holiday shop’, and the towering silhouettes of hollyhocks of cottage gardens.”
In Finding the Familiar, Amy Wright explores the unexpected familiarity found in foreign terrain—where memory, migration, and place intersect. While each setting holds its own unique character, climate, and rhythm, these works seek out the shared language of nature that quietly connects them.
Wright's newest body of work captures the sensation of home in unexpected places—a visual journey through recognition, resonance, and the quiet revelation that the world, though wide, is intimately woven together.
"Being Australian, I’ve often felt the physical and cultural distance from the rest of the world—the island-ness of our vast land. Yet in these fleeting moments abroad, I experienced a strange intimacy with the landscapes before me. What should have felt foreign felt familiar. These paintings are meditations on that interconnectedness—a collapsing of distance, time, and place into painterly impressions that speak to how landscape, memory, and belonging are never truly separate.”
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Based on the Bellarine Peninsula, VIC, Amy Wright is a prolific multidisciplinary artist with a diverse background in Painting and Drawing, Surface Pattern Design and Floral Artistry. Wright has formal training in in the Fine Arts from VCA and a BA (Honours) in Textile Design from RMIT.
Working in mixed media–predominately oil, acrylic and prismacolour pencil–her painting methodology is reminiscent to that of collage, where the whole is made up of cropped fragments, and she playfully toys with the idea of hiding and revealing. Pattern, shape, texture and colour are core to her practice and are used to create a sensory narrative of the landscape.
