Gallery 9 is delighted to present Grace Wright's third solo exhibition with the gallery, 'The World Moves'. The exhibition will be open from 12 July to 5 August. We welcome you to join us and meet the artist for the opening reception on Wednesday 12 July from 6-8pm. Recently the words, ‘I carry my landscapes around with me’ has been turning over in my mind. The poetic phrase is the title of a Joan Mitchell book, which I discovered late last year in Paris. The concept intrigues me because, as an artist as I continuously absorb colour and light in the environment, often unconsciously, which filters into the work. For ‘The World Moves’ I wanted to live and work in the place where my paintings would eventually be shown, and see how a different environment might alter what emerges. Over the past few months I have been able to spend focused time in the studio, accompanied by a gentle rhythm of morning walks by the water, exploring the city and finding different views of the landscape. Capturing this particular light and colour, and the sense of a fantasy atmosphere, has been a touchstone for the exhibition. Ocean blues, burnt orange evening light, and the milky yet jewel-like ripples of morning light on the water plays out upon compositions that evoke this otherworldly atmosphere, inspired in part by painting whilst listening to the music from Dune. - Grace Wright Gallery 9 will be hosting an artist talk between Grace Wright and Sebastian Goldspink on Saturday 15 July. We welcome you to join us from 2pm to listen to Grace as she and Sebastian walk you through the suite of paintings she created during her stay in Sydney. Grace Wright’s paintings draw together the lineage of abstract expressionism with a historical atmosphere found in grand European religious paintings. Particularly referencing the dramatically diagonal of the baroque, chiaroscuro light and renaissance colour palettes, these works come together in a unique energy. The combination of movement and colour in multilayered compositions seem to impossibly balance localised surface details with equal parts visceral immersion. The tangling gestures unfurl across the canvas evoking figures and landscape with an abstract language. Grace graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (hons) from Elam School of Fine Arts (Auckland) in 2014 and she completed her MFA from the same institution in 2019. Images: Courtesy Gallery9 and the artist.