Blue Mountain Cafe Days in the museum for 2012.
Full afternoon tea 15 pounds. Entry in the Museum of Dreams 10 pounds
Please book through Blue Mountain Cafe 0208 299 6953
or bluemountaincafe@btinternet.com
Cafe days for 2012 April 28th, May 26th, June 30th, July 28th and Aug 25th

Stephen Wright can be contacted at steveparis50@yahoo.co.uk

Stephen Wright uses the discarded objects of everyday life to create mosaics: milk bottle tops, broken dolls, dolls eyeballs, the contents of Christmas crackers, false teeth, pen lids, crockery, and the rich pickings of a car boot sale. Seemingly worthless ubiquitous objects are turned into jewels that become an integral part of the stories he tells. His interest is driven by the impromptu aesthetic qualities that they offer. Wright's use of objects is Outsider Art. A Baroque Art for our times.

More is more. Forget about the minimalist graphics and the bare bones of conceptual art. Stephen Wright has borrowed from the traditions of Folk Art and made it his own. An opera of colour and texture adorns the walls of his Art Gallery/home and garden. Each room is a richly embroidered tapestry interwoven with his stories. He has created his own Mexico in a quiet grey street in Dulwich. The house is bequeathed to the National Trust and open to visitors by appointment.

Wright is a versatile artist working in a broad range of materials across a range of disciplines. He has worked in print, hand painted silks, knitted fabrics and has designed stationary and greeting cards. His work is defined by colour, texture, pattern and story telling and is informed by the Folk Art Traditions of Haiti, Mexico, India and South America that have stimulated him. Other influences cited by Wright are disability, illness and imperfection. He is drawn to the spiritual, iconographic and religious significance of the Folk Art object.

Liberty, Harrods, Selfridges, Harvey Nichols and Conran have purchased his works. More recently Wrights work appeared in Joseph where ten-foot figures clad in brightly coloured garb stood next to the somber suits of the well heeled. He has achieved international acclaim exporting his designs to France, Germany, Scandinavia, Japan, Australia and the USA. Public showings of his work include Solo exhibitions at Halle St, Pierre Paris 2003 and 2004 and as a contributor to Outsider Art Show in Valencia, 2005.His work has been written about in the World of Interiors, The Independent, The Observer, English Vogue, The New York Times, Country Living and Raw Vision. Of late Wright has been commissioned by the Arts Council to design and install mosaics in public spaces. Recent commissions are a mosaic in Bessemer School, East Dulwich; Bonnington Square, Vauxhall; Salisbury Arts Festival and the Kaleidoscope Centre, Catford.

Wright describes his forthcoming exhibition as a diary. Using photos, words, and textiles to describe events that have had a profound influence on his life in the past three years. Honest and confrontational he will explore life through death. Referring back to Mexico in the words of Octavio Paz.

The Mexican in contrast is familiar with death, jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it; it is one of his favourite toys and his most steadfast love Death is present in their fiestas, in their games, their loves and thoughts. From The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz.

Blue Mountain Cafe Days in the museum for 2012.
Full afternoon tea £15. Entry of £10 to be paid at the museum.
Please book through Blue Mountain Cafe 0208 299 6953
or bluemountaincafe@btinternet.com
Cafe days for 2012 April 28th, May 26th, June 30th, July 28th and Aug 25th

Stephen Wright can be contacted at steveparis50@yahoo.co.uk