Now Showing
Currently showing at Eleven is Quiet Ground, an exhibition of new photographs by Harry Cory Wright, which runs until Saturday 26th July 2025.
This is the landscape where the Thames draws nearer to the City of London, curving around the lush expanse of Richmond Park. It marks the final pastoral moment before the imposing presence of concrete and stone takes over, stretching toward the sea. Continuing a theme he has explored for years, Harry Cory Wright presents four exquisite views of this iconic landscape — luminous morning and evening scenes that echo the timeless elegance of early 19th century master paintings of the Thames. This is the river’s last 'hurrah.' This is Quiet Ground.
Yet, beneath the softness of the light, modern elements subtly disrupt the serene order once captured by painters like Sir Joshua Reynolds and J.M.W. Turner. In The Shard from Richmond Park, Cory Wright offers one of his signature early morning encounters. The sunrise filters through the park's summer foliage on the left, while dew glistens along the path to the right. On the horizon, though distant, The Shard stands unmistakably at centre stage, its lights still glowing from the night. Yet, dominating the foreground is the dead trunk of one of Richmond Park’s ancient oak trees, its massive limbs scattered and lifeless. A stark reminder that, in time, all things must fall.
Harry Cory Wright's From Richmond Hill captures the iconic curve of the River Thames as seen from just below Richmond Terrace. The composition echoes J.M.W.Turner's Thomson’s Aeolian Harp (1809), with the familiar river bend and the woods to the right. Yet, beneath the shaded trees in Cory Wright's photograph, a small modern gathering subtly anchors the scene in the present day
Harry Cory Wright was born in 1963 and lives and works in Norfolk. His work features in many prominent private and public collections throughout the world including Hermès, Blackstone, Imperial Health Charity and the Paul Allen Collection. Prestigious group exhibitions include Space to Breathe, Bowhouse, Fife in 2023 alongside work by Andy Goldsworthy and Susan Derges, and Landmark: The Fields of Photography at Somerset House, London (2013) curated by William A. Ewing which also featured work by Elger Esser, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Thomas Struth.
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