Cathy Ward/Eric Wright
London, England

Mourning Box
Victorian glass crystal jewel box, woven human hair, gold, salt crystals
9 x 7.5 x 6.5 cm
2005



____Selected exhibitions

  • Utopia, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 2006
  • High Roads & Low Roads: Anthems, Dirges, Myths, Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida, 2006
  • Destiny Manifest--Eden’s End, Café Gallery Projects, London, 2005
  • Treehugger: Now Romantic Nature, Showroom MANA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2005
  • Romantic Detachment, PS1 MoMA, New York, 2004
  • Volksgeist, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada, 2002
  • Transromantik, The Chamber of Pop Culture, Horse Hospital, London, 2000

Cathy Ward, born in Ashford, Kent in 1960, has a diploma from Canterbury College of Art, 1981, a BA from Middlesex Polytechnic, London, 1986, and a MA from the Royal College of Art, London, 1988. Eric Wright, born in Ohio in 1962, has a BFA from Ohio University, Athens, 1984. In 2004 Ward and Wright received research grants from the Arts Council of England and Grizedale Arts in the United Kingdom and a research residency from the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Utah.

In 2004 we retraced the epic but tragic 1848 wagon trail of the Donner-Reed Party. Our sculpture of salt crystals grown on a Victorian artifact is our reminder of the relentless trek across the Great Salt Lake Desert, where all worldly possessions became encrusted with salt.