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Artist Daphne Wright is fascinated with the collections of the Ashmolean Museum and the history of seeing they present. Her latest project grows out of a lifetime’s engagement with this theme. Much of Wright’s existing body of work is steeped in a deep understanding of the iconography and history of Western art, as represented in the Ashmolean’s extensive collection. This book establishes connections to the Ashmolean’s rich collection of 17th century Dutch Still Life paintings. These genre paintings portray a range of subjects from arrangements of flowers to fruit, fish and game. Sometimes the paintings include a symbolic reference to the transience of life, in the form of fruit that has begun to rot or flowers that are losing petals. In Fridge Still Life<\/em>, the exposed body of a fridge, containing upon its shelves a raw chicken and bundle of asparagus, is topped with a vase of wilting tulips. This is a contemporary re-telling of a still life painting, with its various familiar elements, such as a brace of hanging pheasants, a bowl of fruit and a vase of blooms, with can connote status or vanitas. Wright has explored the transitory nature of life throughout her practice. In previous work, Wright has used plants and animals, with their shorter life spans, to stand in for the human. Wright’s work also resonates strongly with the Ashmolean’s extensive and celebrated cast collection. Prominent amongst the plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculptures are the gods and heroes of Homeric legend. These idealised images of men still form the basis of our ideas of masculinity today. With Sons on Couch<\/em> Wright is seeking to capture the elusive moment of transition into manhood. The athletic figures in the cast court may have been updated to social media influencers, but the pressure young men face today to achieve a perceived ideal body type remain the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The fourth installment of the Ashmolean Now<\/em> series focuses on sculptures by Irish artist Daphne Wright. Conceived with the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, the exhibition features several new works in plaster which consider the tradition of still lifes and respond to the sculptures in the Ashmolean’s Cast Gallery collection. <\/p>\n

13 DIRECTORS’ FOREWORD
\n15 DAPHNE WRIGHT: DEEP-ROOTED THINGS
\nXa Sturgis
\n53 IN CONVERSATION WITH DAPHNE WRIGHT
\nBarbara Dawson & Xa Sturgis
\n75 THE SPACE THEY OCCUPY
\nEmily LaBarge
\n83 BETWEEN ME AND MY SONS
\nBarbara Dawson
\n87 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":59464,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5568],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58953","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-art","7":"author-by-author-emily-labarge","8":"author-by-author-xa-sturgis","9":"publisher-ashmolean-museum","10":"series-ashmolean-now","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAshmolean NOW 4: Daphne Wright - ACC Art Books UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Title: Ashmolean NOW 4: Daphne Wright, Pages: 96 Pages, Publish Date: 28th May 2025, Author: Emily LaBarge, Xa Sturgis, ISBN: 9781910807675. 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