{"id":23436,"date":"2015-09-16T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=23436"},"modified":"2015-09-16T10:07:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T17:07:17","slug":"lisa-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/16\/lisa-wright\/","title":{"rendered":"lisa wright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/lisawrightartist.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23437\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/lisawrightartist.jpg\" alt=\"lisawrightartist\" width=\"584\" height=\"3903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/lisawrightartist.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/lisawrightartist-45x300.jpg 45w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/lisawrightartist-153x1024.jpg 153w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Historic, yet modern &#8230; beautiful, yet disturbing <em>{I particularly love that cigarette in the final piece}<\/em>. This is the work, oil on canvas, of UK based artist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisawrightartist.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Wright<\/a>. This description from her site says it better than I ever could, so:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The childhood adornments of bonbons, ribbons and laces may have altered considerably but what they represent has not: the growing desire to escape prepubescence and the trying on of the adult persona is inevitable. By pulling visual threads through time and fastening them to the present, these gently unsettling images pinch the viewer and connect them with a shared history.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gently unsettling, indeed.<\/p>\n<p><em>{Lisa has a show opening soon at\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coatesandscarry.com\/\">Coates and Scarry<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"s3\">, from Thursday 1<\/span><span class=\"s4\"><sup>st <\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s3\">to Sunday 18<\/span><span class=\"s4\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s3\"> October at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.8dukestreet.co.uk\/location\/4538086760\"><span class=\"s1\">Gallery 8<\/span><\/a>, Duke Street St James, London}<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historic, yet modern &#8230; beautiful, yet disturbing {I particularly love that cigarette in the final piece}. This is the work, oil on canvas, of UK based artist\u00a0Lisa Wright. This description from her site says it better than I ever could, so: The childhood adornments of bonbons, ribbons and laces may have altered considerably but what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23445,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23436\/revisions\/23445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}