Harry Clayton-Wright
Harry-Wright is a performance artist, theatre-maker, and internet-provocateur from Blackpool, highly regarded as one of the most exciting and prolific new voices in the UK arts scene. Harry’s debut solo theatre show Sex Education premiered in 2017 winning the LGBTQ award at Brighton Fringe Festival and was nominated for a Total Theatre Award (Emerging Artist/Company) at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2019. Harry was also selected as one of British Council’s Artists to Watch as part of the Edinburgh Showcase 2019. Sex Education will continue touring the UK and internationally from 2021.
2019 saw Harry collaborating with Grammy nominated and UK Music Video Award winning director David Wilson (Christine and the Queens, Arcade Fire, Lady Gaga, Arctic Monkeys) for their new film Deep Clean, adapted from one of Harry’s most provocative cabaret acts. Deep Clean was part of the official selection at SXSW, the Iris Prize in Cardiff, NewFest in New York and Fringe! Queer Arts and Film Fest in London, before premiering online on NOWNESS in December 2019. Little White Lies called Deep Clean one of the six best new LGBT+ short films from around the world and said of the short, “Truly stunning… A work of legitimately radical power.”
Harry also created The Fortnight in 2019, a two-week durational work – 14 eight hour performances consecutively performed over 14 days – first performed at The Spire as part of Brighton Fringe (May, 2019) and then at Abingdon Studios in Blackpool (September 2019). His 107-hour immersive performance art installation The Slumber Party has been in situ at Glastonbury (2015) and Adelaide Fringe Festival (2018).
Cosmopolitan called him a “Genius”. BuzzFeed called him “Absolutely incredible”. The Guardian called him “Extraordinary,” and so did The Scotsman. Harry Clayton-Wright is an artist who is never standing still, constantly questioning and creating innovative, exciting, provocative work.
Harry Clayton-Wright is a performance artist, theatre-maker, and internet-provocateur from Blackpool, highly regarded as one of the most exciting and prolific new voices in the UK arts scene. Harry’s debut solo theatre show Sex Education premiered in 2017 winning the LGBTQ award at Brighton Fringe Festival and was nominated for a Total Theatre Award (Emerging Artist/Company) at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2019. Harry was also selected as one of British Council’s Artists to Watch as part of the Edinburgh Showcase 2019. Sex Education will continue touring the UK and internationally from 2021.
2019 saw Harry collaborating with Grammy nominated and UK Music Video Award winning director David Wilson (Christine and the Queens, Arcade Fire, Lady Gaga, Arctic Monkeys) for their new film Deep Clean, adapted from one of Harry’s most provocative cabaret acts. Deep Clean was part of the official selection at SXSW, the Iris Prize in Cardiff, NewFest in New York and Fringe! Queer Arts and Film Fest in London, before premiering online on NOWNESS in December 2019. Little White Lies called Deep Clean one of the six best new LGBT+ short films from around the world and said of the short, “Truly stunning… A work of legitimately radical power.”
Harry also created The Fortnight in 2019, a two-week durational work – 14 eight hour performances consecutively performed over 14 days – first performed at The Spire as part of Brighton Fringe (May, 2019) and then at Abingdon Studios in Blackpool (September 2019). His 107-hour immersive performance art installation The Slumber Party has been in situ at Glastonbury (2015) and Adelaide Fringe Festival (2018).
Cosmopolitan called him a “Genius”. BuzzFeed called him “Absolutely incredible”. The Guardian called him “Extraordinary,” and so did The Scotsman. Harry Clayton-Wright is an artist who is never standing still, constantly questioning and creating innovative, exciting, provocative work.
Photo by Sam Taylor-Edwards. Styling by Nathan Henry
