We are proud to announce that Artist Richard Wright a long standing customer of Wrights of Lymm has been awarded the Turner Prize 2009 for his spectacular wall painting using our 22ct Transfer Gold Leaf

Born in London in 1960, he moved toScotland as a child and studied at the Edinburgh College of Art and in the 1990’s at Glasgow School of Art.  At 49, this was Richard’s last chance to win the Turner Prize, as only artists under 50 are eligible.

Richard employed the painstaking techniques of Renaissance fresco makers – drawing a cartoon on paper and then transferring it to the wall in what he called “an incredibly medieval way” by pouncing/piercing the cartoon with holes and rubbing chalk through it to create “the ghost of a work” on the wall.  The image was then painted with gold size and covered with Gold Leaf.

© Richard Wright. Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery, London, New York, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow, and BQ, Berlin. Photo credit: Mike Bruce.