EVEWRIGHT

b. 1964, UK

EVEWRIGHT, is a British artist, with parentage from Jamaica. He is multi-disciplinary visual installation artist, who challenges public environments to make spaces for Black British stories to exist and thrive. His work is a conscious ‘mash up’ of drawing, sculpture, combined with digital film and live installations. He explores the intricate connections between the body and our experience of the modern environment, and communicates this through bold interactive art, also using urban and rural landscapes as his canvas. He creates mirrors where he can see and recognise himself to instigate conversations in the mainstream about what it means to be Black and British in the UK today.

His sculptural work, includes the £££ Kissi Pennies $$$, a series of sculptures that challenges the notion of value, currency, slavery and trade that is inspired by modern day migration and the ancient African former currency Kissi Pennies. EVEWRIGHT is also concerned with socio-political issues of place, space and the movement of peoples. He explores film, storytelling in relation to drawing and his practice goes beyond the decorative and the 2D, employing drawing as a documentary tool to give voice to hidden stories and hidden peoples.

"I first met Cynthia Corbett in 2014 when exhibiting my artwork Walking Drawings Across the Estuaries Installation at the Royal Academy London. I was invited to exhibit at Cynthia Corbett’s Young Masters Exhibition that year which helped to grow my early career. Since then I have achieved further group shows and art installations such as, Tilbury Bridge Walkway of Memories ( 2021-2023), Belongings (2023) and a solo exhibitions Libation at Firstsite Gallery (2023). I have also exhibited and am currently developing new artworks as part of a residency at the National Maritime Museum London in 2025 and have achieved national awards. I am delighted to take part in Cynthia Corbett’s latest retrospective as part of my ongoing artistic journey." - EVEWRIGHT, October 2025

EVEWRIGHT has participated in several group and solo exhibitions including: Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition 2025