Together in Electric Dreams: Stuart Pearson Wright (Paperback)

As one of the youngest winners of the BP Portrait award (back in 2001 when he was only 26) Stuart's new works emphasize the artist's concern with the motif of the smile and its traditional role in the history of portraiture as well as its use in advertising, popular culture and the mass media as a signifier of a successful life.His work explores the process of transformation which takes place both privately and publicly when a camera is pointed at a subject and what the artist describes as the collective, hysterical conspiracy to appear happy which blights our visual world with endless images of disingenuousness.