Daphne Wright: Emotional Archaeology

Published to accompany the exhibition Emotional Archaeology, including essays by Penelope Curtis, Director of The Museu Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, Xa Sturgis, Director of The Ashmolean, Oxford and interviews by Brian McAvera, Art Critic, Irish Arts Review and Shirley MacWilliam Lecturer in Fine Art, Ulster University.

Daphne Wright’s approach to producing art, involves looking at subjects with an intense psychological engagement, intellectual reasoning and meticulous research. Josephine Lanyon has described this approach as emotional archaeology because it uncovers hidden truths in the process of reproducing our contemporary culture.

Edited by Josephine Lanyon.

Paperback 

144 pages