EAST
Solo Show, Giles Baker Smith, Somerset, May 2025
For more than two decades, Harry Cory Wright has steadily cemented a significant position in the pantheon of landscape photography. Several solo exhibitions at Eleven Fine Art have garnered the praise of critics and collectors alike; Rachel Campbell-Johnston noted that: “These are not images to stand back and stare at. They are landscapes to step into. They ground you as you look.”
To date his work has largely focused on the British countryside and especially Norfolk where he lives, with its particular vistas looking north across sandflats and sea to sky. In the course of 2024, a dialogue between Harry and GBS Fine Art (with the blessing of his long-time dealer Eleven) led to a trip to Nantucket, one of the easternmost points of the continental US. Here he was implicitly drawn to look east back towards Europe. While it may be a natural instinct to face the rising sun, on a metaphysical level it harnessed the centuries of human movement back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean, from the Vikings and later the Portuguese in their quest for cod, to the early settlers with their own quest for some freedom of conscience and religious practice, to the great whaling fleets of the nineteenth century.
Cory Wright has always used a large format (8”” x 10”) analogue plate camera; “…it has an almost magical capacity to record much more than I can see.” And while the resulting detail is astonishing, it equally seems to have captured some sense of the innate nostalgia experienced by generations of sailors and travellers between the two continents. Moreover, it lends itself to presentation at scale, enabling the viewer to do as suggested by Cambell- Johnston, to literally step into the image and become as one with the landscape.
PRIMARY LANDSCAPE
Works On Paper with Davina Barber, Cromwell Place, May 2025
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PRIMARY. The first glimpse of something before you have worked it out, before you know it, before the abstraction even, which is after all, when you dismantle it… after.
Primary colours.
Primary as in the simplicity. Primary School even. The basics of language of landscape identifying the primary forces of mass, form, perspective, colour, shade, circumstance and balance in space.
You can see the current catalogue of watercolours here
Nantucket USA for 2025
A new series of photographs for GBS Fine Art. 2 large framed pictures are on their way to EXPO Chicago April 25.
I took the 10 x 8 inch camera to photograph the Atlantic Ocean from Nantucket USA at sunrise in November 2024. This picture here was taken at sunrise on 5th November, the morning of the US election.
Please get in touch with Giles Baker Smith or Tracey Grace at GBS Fine Art for more details. https://www.gbsfineart.com/
The Giles Baker Smith has has written this about the series.
For more than two decades, Harry Cory Wright has steadily cemented a significant position in the pantheon of landscape photography. Several solo exhibitions at Eleven Fine Art have garnered the praise of critics and collectors alike; Rachel Campbell-Johnston noted that: “These are not images to stand back and stare at. They are landscapes to step into. They ground you as you look.”
To date his work has largely focused on the British countryside and especially Norfolk where he lives, with its particular vistas looking north across sandflats and sea to sky. In the course of 2024, a dialogue between Harry and GBS Fine Art (with the blessing of his long-time dealer Eleven) led to a trip to Nantucket, one of the easternmost points of the continental US. Here he was implicitly drawn to look east back towards Europe. While it may be a natural instinct to face the rising sun, on a metaphysical level it harnessed the centuries of human movement back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean, from the Vikings and later the Portuguese in their quest for cod, to the early settlers with their own quest for some freedom of conscience and religious practice, to the great whaling fleets of the nineteenth century.
Cory Wright has always used a large format (8”” x 10”) analogue plate camera; “…it has an almost magical capacity to record much more than I can see.” And while the resulting detail is astonishing, it equally seems to have captured some sense of the innate nostalgia experienced by generations of sailors and travellers between the two continents. Moreover, it lends itself to presentation at scale, enabling the viewer to do as suggested by Cambell- Johnston, to literally step into the image and become as one with the landscape.
600 PIECES OF LANDSCAPE
The installation is currently set up outside my studio in Norfolk. Let me know if you would like to come and look. It will be installed at The Stapleford Granary near Cambridge in July and August where the theme will be 600 Pieces of Landscape; Chalk Stream, encouraging you to make your own abstract work fronm the 600 pieces whilst considering the realm of the river Granta that flows just outside the gallery space.
Comprehensive details here.
600 an installation of small individual 'units’ that I have made in the studio, all laid out randomly on three shelves in a studio installation 'shed'.
Each unit is unique, of varying colour and tone, and represents some visual aspect of landscpae I live. Some of the pieces are also photographs. The viewer is encouraged to explore what happens when they arrange these units together on one of several boards provided on a workbench below the shelves; 2, perhaps 3 or more pieces at the same time.
For the last few years I have been covering four different practices of photography, painting, drawing and relief work and am now interested in how they work together. I made a series called Vision of an Estuary (see here) where I pair and juxtapose 2 different types of work opposite each other on a page. The two individual pictures start a dialogue together… one informs the other. A wordless evocation of the experience of being in English Landscape.
In this installation you are encouraged to play your own game and find ways that the arrangements you create explore your own experience of being in landscape.
Huge thanks to Crane Garden Buildings who are constructing the exhibition space... a building within a building.
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New London Photographs for Spring 2025
5 new photographs coming soon. They are all taken in the summer around Richmond following an earlier theme of that area of London where the Thames enters into London.. before it gets to the city.
Editions of 10 with same spec as always... 3 very big, seven smaller. More to follow.
If you are interested then please contact Charlie at Eleven Fine Art
Exhibition in North Norfolk, May 24th until June 2nd
I’m making an Installation in Burnham Overy Staithe here in Norfolk. It’s the first time I have brought together the four different practises of photography, watercolour, drawing and relief. They are starting to inform each other and the show aims to look at what happens when they are sit within a small space with a common theme. All the work is about the estuary where the show takes place... though importantly it no longer is an estuary... sea walls, land reclaim etc. There is more detail about the wider idea of ‘Vision of an Estuary’ theme here.
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