Andrew Wright is an multi-disciplnary artist who has been photographing subjects at night for the past 7 years.

Wright has worked towards a particular kind of imagery that both identifies and challenges conventional uses and understandings of photographic practice.  He creates images that sit on the edge of possibility—ones that are rife with the plenitudes of realistic detail and, at the same time, full of the potential energy of their own collapse—“a kind of wished-for uncertainty”

His images laud, reveal and question the conditions of their making.  He has chosen subject matter that is either minimal or barely existing (clouds, empty space) or subjects that contain a staggeringly overwhelming complexity and fullness.  His photographs of trees and natural settings are objects and places that at first appear pure and unadulterated by human intervention.  The imposition of artificial light not only serves to reveal and illuminate but renders the subject’s overt naturalism suspect. The descriptive visual plenty of information provided by the light serves, at the same time, to throw the image’s veracity into question.

Canadian critic Robert Enright has observed: “What Wright accepts is an attitude that is skeptical of any kind of epistemological certainty. He is committed to a way of knowing by doubting. Knowledge is provisional, a product of the assumptions we make about its presentation. He recognizes that one set of information can be followed by another, and in that exchange a new set of conclusions can be drawn.” 

The difficulty that we face in terms of understanding the world around us, Wright feels, has less to do with the complexity and fullness of the world itself and more to do with the human and ultimately fallible methods by which we seek to understand it.