Matthew Wright (British, b. 1945)

Matthew Wright was born in London in 1945. He studied at the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting, where he won first prize for drawing and painting and the David Murray Travelling Scholarship to Framce. In 1966 he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy School. In 1969 he won First Landseer Prize and Silver Medal for drawing at the Royal Academy School. He now lives and works beside the River Thames and spends part of the year in France in the Pyrenees.

Exhibitions of his work have been held at The Bulls Eye Gallery, Lichfield, Staffs, 1969, The Summit Gallery, Hamstead, 1973, The Perrins Gallery, Hamstead, 1974, The Lock Shop Gallery, Campden Town 1976, The Langton Gallery, Chelsea, 1978, Ceret, Pyrenees, France, 1972/1979.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s Matthew has had numerous exhibitions including shows at the Sue Rankin Gallery, London, Lauderdale House, Highgate, Burgh House, Hampstead, Lena Boyle Fine Art, Chelsea, Windsor Street Gallery, Chertsey and a very successful major retrospective at The Gallery, Cork Street, London in 2002. In May 2006 an exhibition of his work was held at the Lennox Gallery, Fulham.

His work is held in many private and public collections including: The Bolton Art Gallery and Museum, The Sheffield Gallery and Museum, The Inner London Education authority.

Additionally he has illustrated a number of books including: Mid Sixties Norman Parish Church Architecture for Batsfords, A set of twelve drawings for the Church of England Project, Cornwall, Wine illustration work for Tolly Cobbold and for Johnson-Poensgen, Wine shippers.