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Richard Wright 'Works on Paper'

The output is a curated exhibition of work by artist Richard Wright within Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow, between 20th April and 24th June 2014 appearing in the main programme for the 2012 Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. This was the first and remains the only exhibition of Wright’s work to focus exclusively on his works on paper. It was comprised of a total of 30 works or varying size, made between 1998 and 2011. The project stemmed from my established curatorial practice, along with knowledge of the artist’s work and built on previous experience of creating temporary exhibitions of contemporary art in unconventional locations and venues, in this case the Italian Art Gallery of Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum. The space was made available for the purpose of creating an exhibition for Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, following on from the project realised there in 2010 with David Shrigley. The selection comprised a number of works from the late 1990s that had a strong graphic focus, some of which included textual elements, through others with a distinctive use of geometry, demonstrating the artist’s on-going concern the creation of perspective in the two-dimensional plane. The most recent works showed a use or mirroring and inversion, along with an increasing use of silver and gold leaf. The exhibition included loans from a number of collections including Artists’ Pension Trust (APT London), Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London; British Council Collection, BSI Art Collection SA, Switzerland; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art; Museum Brandhorst, Munich; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Jörn Bötnagel and Yvonne Quirmbach, Berlin; Collection Hannelore and Peter Molitor; Collection of Marissa Sackler, London; Melinda and Ealan Wingate and others who wish to remain anonymous.