Buchanan Christie
Paul Wright and Jeni Weinberger set up Buchanan and Christie to make way for more rigorous research particularly within portraiture but also exploring a Creative Tech envirnoment for Health and Social Impact. Primarily collaborating with originators, such as fine artists, thinkers and philosphers, scientists and technologists to re-look at some of the most pressing social issues of our time.
For Paul, Portraiture is at the heart of everything he does. Whatever the final composition, the human, or lack thereof, is the pivot point, the perspective, the sight line. Paul doesn't confine himself to the face and body alone. The individual, the lived experience and the wider social context is often considered. It is sometimes only nodded to and at other times explicit.
Over the last few years a deepening collaboration with Jeni Weinberger has evolved and together they have explored The Portrait and what could it mean as vehicle to connect. Not just symbols of power or elitism but to push the genre forward enveloping ideas of 'What it is to be Human' and the wider social influences. Buchanan Christie are developing new ways to do this and will launch ideas and experiences through their activation studio. A Creative Intelligence for the common good, as Jeni describes it.
By aligning with other creatives they can jointly explore opportunities for equitable social impact and also to explore universalities within our global community.
Jeni Weinberger