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About Alexa Wright

Alexa Wright is London-based artist working across a range of media including photography, video and interactive installation. Since the late-1990s, when she became known for ‘After Image’, an award-winning series of photographs of people with phantom limbs, Alexa’s research-based practice has often featured dialogues with people with physical impairments and physical or mental health conditions. She has been involved in several long term inter-disciplinary collaborations, for example with Alf Linney, Professor of Medical Physics and computer scientists at UCL (1999-2010) and Hybrid Bodies, a unique international, interdisciplinary project based in Toronto, Canada that brought together medics, visual artists, a philosopher and social scientists to explore the emotional and psychological effects of heart transplantation (2007-19). In 2015, funded by Arts Council England, Alexa initiated ‘Piecing it Together’, a participatory project for people experiencing mental ill health at two NHS Mental Health Recovery Centres. She is currently working on another Arts Council funded project in two prisons to create a video installation based on participants’ experiences.

Alexa Wright is London-based artist working across a range of media including photography, video and interactive installation. Since the late-1990s, when she became known for ‘After Image’, an award-winning series of photographs of people with phantom limbs, Alexa’s research-based practice has often featured dialogues with people with physical impairments and physical or mental health conditions. She has been involved in several long term inter-disciplinary collaborations, for example with Alf Linney, Professor of Medical Physics and computer scientists at UCL (1999-2010) and Hybrid Bodies, a unique international, interdisciplinary project based in Toronto, Canada that brought together medics, visual artists, a philosopher and social scientists to explore the emotional and psychological effects of heart transplantation (2007-19). In 2015, funded by Arts Council England, Alexa initiated ‘Piecing it Together’, a participatory project for people experiencing mental ill health at two NHS Mental Health Recovery Centres. She is currently working on another Arts Council funded project in two prisons to create a video installation based on participants’ experiences.

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Alexa Wright is London-based artist working across a range of media including photography, video, interactive installation and book works. She has worked at the intersection of art and medical science since the late-1990s and often works with people with mental and physical differences to make works that address questions of human identity and otherness through qualities like vulnerability and empathy. She has been involved in several long term inter-disciplinary collaborations, for example with Alf Linney, Professor of Medical Physics and computer scientists at UCL (1999-2010) and Hybrid Bodies, a unique international, interdisciplinary project based in Toronto, Canada that brought together medics, visual artists, a philosopher and social scientists to explore the emotional and psychological effects of heart transplantation (2007-19).