About Me

My name is Caroline Sylvia Wright and I am an illustration based Graphic designer. I live in Avondale, Auckland, new Zealand with my family.
I completed my Bachelor of Graphic design and animation in 2012 at Unitec, I am currently working freelance. I have only started back to work recently after breaking my dominant wrist. After a lengthy rehabilitation process I am back at work.

In 2009 I decided I wanted to design books which started the process of becoming a Graphic designer. This decision proved life changing. After two years as an adult student at Rutherford college I started my Bachelor degree at Unitec. I have mostly taught myself to draw and paint (this is an ongoing process of which I am continuing to develop) – in addition, I was a formally trained florist which has given me a good grounding in design principles, this experience continues to permeate my work.

Where possible I self generate my images through illustration based upon my own photography. My naturalistic inspirations stem from my grandfather Ian Salt, books from my childhood from illustrators such as Hilda Boswell, Edith Holden and more recently Andrew Loomis.

 

My practice

The underlying contextual reference for my work is a concern for, and a sense of, social and environmental responsibility. My work is fundamentally intuitive and deals with, explores, and helps further define, my personal viewpoints and the connections between the physical environment and my sense of the world.

I am interested in notions of seeing through personal memory and reflection, connecting concepts and objects and exploring them through graphic design to communicate my vision. Ultimately my aim is for others to see what I see, to bring attention to the worth and the importance of its conservation. Once they have really seen the issue it is forever changed in their eyes. If we waste our resources by not remembering and appreciating them, the implications for the wellbeing of our future generations will be greatly reduced just through the act of not seeing, forgetting and ignoring.