richard wright

Richard Wright

Wright decorates architectural spaces with intricately designed geometric patterns in paint and gold leaf.^[4] His work of art includes a wide range of works made on paper, from prints on poster paper to elaborate and complex large-scale works that can include thousands of hand drawn and painted marks.

His paintings are often short-lived, only surviving the length of an exhibition, they are painted over at the end of the show. This often seems to heighten the senses of the viewer in the knowledge that the work may not be viewable again, in any other place, at any other time. Turner Prize judge Andrea Schlieker described him as a "painter who rejects the canvas";^[5] fellow judge Jonathan Jones called him a "modern fresco painter".^[4] Wright injects complex works into often overlooked architectural spaces.

On 7 December 2009 Wright received the Turner Prize 2009^[6] for his golden fresco on the walls of Tate Britain's second room.