The 2009 Turner Prize was awarded to Richard Wright yesterday. The Turner Prize, established in 1984, celebrates new developments in modern art and is awarded every year to a young (under 50) British artist. The artists nominated for the prize this year also included Enrico David, Roger Hiorns, and Lucy Skaer.
Turner's installation at London's Tate Gallery was a gold leaf mural, described here by Adrian Searle of the Guardian:
The image never settles down. There are bursts of sunlight, the rays reminding you of an old engraving; these shafts of drawn light are set among boiling clouds and apparitions. In fact, the whole thing is like some monstrous and lovely apocalypse, its sections duplicated, reversed on themselves and inverted. The gold leaf itself catches the gallery light, losing parts of the image in glare and dulling other sections down to a greyish-green, as you move around it. Wright makes this constant flux more than a decorative effect.
And some added trivia: Richard Wright is also the guitarist for Scottish band Correcto, which includes Franz Ferdinand drummer, Paul Thompson.
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