WRIGHT, Stuart Pearson

1975 - ?

Stuart Pearson Robert Wright was born in October 1975. Stuart went to school at Eastbourne, Sussex and drew with enthusiasm from an early age and, after considering becoming an actor, finally opted for art school. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London 1995–1999, graduating B.A. (hons) Fine Art, during which time he won a travel award from the National Portrait Gallery as part of its 1998 B.P. Portrait Awards. He drove around Britain in a van, producing sketches and paintings as he went, with a resulting exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery 'From Eastbourne to Edinburgh: A Painter's Odyssey'. An artist now living and working in Suffolk, in 2000 he worked on a small portrait on oak of actor John Hurt which was subsequently purchased by the National Portrait Gallery along with a portrait of the Ballet dancer Adam Cooper and in 2004 with the release of a portrait of the Duke of Edinburgh which featured a bare-chested Prince with a bluebottle on one shoulder. The portrait, which had been commissioned by the Royal Society of Arts, was refused by them. Another commission was a portrait of the children's author J. K. Rowling also commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, the portrait was conceived in the manner of a regency toy theatre, with the figure painted onto a flat cut-out, mounted in a three-dimensional space. In 2014 Stuart, together with his partner Polly and two children, moved from East London to a set of castle ruins in rural Suffolk. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and has also shown at the University of Aberystwyth, Wales; Snape Maltings Galleries, Suffolk; The Heong Gallery in Cambridge; Galerie Huebner in Frankfurt; Riflemaker, London and elsewhere.
Website: https://stuartpearsonwright.com

Royal Academy Exhibits
from Mettingham Castle, Castle Road, Mettingham, Bungay, Suffolk
2018 184 Stepdad - oil on linen

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Works by This Artist