Daphne Wright makes sculptural installations using a variety of techniques and media to explore how a range of languages and materials can be used to probe unspoken human preoccupations. 

Wright’s work is concerned with boundaries and the transitory areas of life, exploring the cusp of childhood and adulthood, as well as the spaces and borderlines between life and death. Using a wide range of materials and techniques – plaster, tin foil, video, printmaking, found objects, and performance – she creates beautiful and rather eerie worlds that feel like the threshold to somewhere new.

Recent international exhibition highlights include Hotspot, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, curated by Gerardo Mosquera; Daphne Wright: Prayer Project, Davis Museum, USA; Portals; the Hellenic Parliament with ΝΕΟΝ, Athens;  Infinite Sculpture, Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon; A Quiet Mutiny, Crawford Art Gallery ,Cork Ireland; Where do broken hearts go ‘ Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.

Wright curated the 2018 exhibition The Ethics of Scrutiny at the Irish Museum of Modern Art as part of the Freud Project. Wright has received the Paul Hamlyn Award,  The Henry Moore FoundationFellowship, and The British School of Rome fellowship.

Wright was born in 1963, in Co. Longford, Ireland. She studied at the Atlantic Technological University, Sligo between 1981–1985, National College of Art & Design, Dublin between 1985–87, and between 1989–1991 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic. 

She is a member of Aosdana and is represented by Frith Street Gallery, London. Wright lives in Dublin.