Jasleen Kaur has won the coveted 2024 Turner Prize with a vibrantly eclectic installation that showcases the Scottish Sikh community. Everyday personal objects collide with highly charged political images in her installation at London’s Tate Britain, amongst them a giant doily draped over a vintage Ford Escort.
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Earlier this month, Artist Jesse Darling has won the 2023 Turner Prize for his dystopian sculptures made of everyday detritus that comment on modern British life. As the winner of the most prestigious British art prize, Darling will receive a £25,000 award. “There’s a lot of humour in the work and you feel immersed in its world,” commented Alex Farquharson, Tate Britain director and chair of the Turner Prize jury.
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This year an Irish pub installation has been crowned winner of the coveted Turner Prize. By translating their activism into artwork, Belfast-based activist group Array Collective won the £25,000 prize.
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Tate Britain has decided to cancel the most high-profile award in British art for only the second time in its history. The Turner prize 2020 was due to take place in the autumn, but it will adopt a very different format this year in response to the unprecedented upheaval caused by Covid-19. Continue reading
Everyone’s a winner! All four nominees for this year’s Turner prize have won, after controversially asking the judges if they could split the £40,000 prize. Continue reading
The much-anticipated artist shortlist for the Turner Prize 2019 has been announced this week. Every two years the prize moves away from London, with the current exhibition taking place in Margate. Continue reading
Damien Hirst’s severed cows in formaldehyde won it in 1995 and Tracey Emin’s unmade bed made the shortlist in 1999.
Now it has been announced that the winner of the controversial Turner Prize for contemporary visual art in 2019 will be revealed at Turner Contemporary in Margate. Continue reading
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