You can always bank on the Turner Prize to think of something different when it comes to selecting a winner. So, this year's winner once again provides a stark contrast to some of his more controversial predecessors: Richard Wright (49) is a painter, whose wall paintings are always temporary, skillfully done but most of all things of pure beauty. The video above is an interview (by Tate Channel) with Wright on the occasion of his nomination for the Turner Prize. Read the Guardian report here.

Subtle and deliberate, Richard Wright's wall drawings are characterized by an enduring elegance. The designs hover between op art, minimalism and the psychedelic with a modern touch, responding directly to contemporary culture and, more literally, to the architcture of the situation at hand. For his Dutch debut at the Van Abbemuseum, Anja Dorn spoke with Wright about tricky paradoxes, frescoes and other fascinations.