Richard Wright

The Stairwell Project

1 January – 31 December 2012

Turner Prize winner Richard Wright was commissioned by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art to make a permanent painting in the west stairwell of their building for the Edinburgh Art Festival 2010.

The work is comprised of thousands of individually painted, small organic shapes – the size, orientation, direction and exact positioning of each form is dictated by a complex and unseen set of force lines radiating out from key focal points. The effect is both dizzying and spectacular, not unlike a black on white version of the webs of stars in the night sky.

Mon—Sun, 10—5pm (6pm during August)

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Modern Two, 73 Belford Road, EH4 3DS