Richard Wright: The Stairwell Project - Edinburgh Festival Guide

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.

Running time: 480 mins