Daryn Wright is a ceramic artist, painter, and installation artist whose work primarily involves using the archive as source material. Ceramic sculpture lies at the center of her work, the anchor around which paintings, collage, found-objects, and assemblage interact through experiential installations. Food, folklore, domesticity, and the rituals of the everyday play a major role in her work, subjects which are often explored through the lens of humour and irony. Everyday, ordinary objects are made strange and unfamiliar as a way of demonstrating the potential to enter into the otherworldly – to take what we know as familiar and reconfigure new contexts. Through the act of riffing on historical archival material, Wright's work investigates how the past informs our present understanding of cultural signifiers and how the objects with which we surround ourselves become a "seance of the self." Recent exhibitions include the group exhibition Nostalgia at THIS Gallery and Creator's Harvest at Centre A, both in 2025, as well as in the upcoming Maker + Mother group exhibition at Parker Street Gallery. Wright will begin her MFA at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in September 2026.
