Lynn Wray

Lynn Wray's work is heavily research-based, fueled by a desire to communicate ideas visually and to tell stories through non-traditional narrative structures and media. It is iconoclastic and determinedly anti-stylistic, led by content and rendered with skill.

Wray is interested in making work which responds to external questions and, in particular, which elucidates and investigates varying ideals of civilisation and the enforcement of these notions onto communities. Within this broad theme she has investigated the impact of exploration, the ideology of empire, the symbolism of formal gardens and the paradoxes present in regeneration imagery. She is also particularly interested in the way in which image and text relate to each other and can create different levels of meaning when juxtaposed or interweaved, often utilizing the artists’ book as a format to further investigate these ideas.

Wray recently completed an MA in Communication Art and Design at the Royal College of Art and previously studied at Glasgow School of Art, where she gained a first class degree and was awarded the dissertation prize for best dissertation.

Exhibitions:
Civilisation
PROGRESSION