Tate Britain has announced the winner of the Turner Prize in 2024, its 40th year. Jasleen Kaur – an artist whose latest exhibition uses a vintage Ford Escort, worship bells and Irn-Bru to celebrate the Scottish Sikh community – won the award for her Alter Altar exhibition at the city’s contemporary arts venue Tramway. The 38-year-old, who grew up in Glasgow, was praised for gathering “different voices through unexpected and playful combinations of material”. The...
Contemporary art gallery Towner Eastbourne will host the Turner Prize 2023, the world’s leading prize for contemporary art, as the centrepiece of its centenary celebrations. The four shortlisted nominees for this year’s Turner Prize are: Jesse Darling Ghislaine Leung Rory Pilgrim Barbara Walker One of the best-known prizes for the visual arts in the world, the Turner Prize aims to promote public debate around new developments in contemporary British art. Established in 1984, the Prize...
The organisers of the Turner Prize have announced the cancellation of his year’s edition. Instead, 10 bursaries of £10,000 will be awarded to selected artists. Normally, the shortlist for the controversial modern art prize would have been announced by organisers Tate Britain at this time of year, usually to the bafflement and derision of the public. An exhibition would have opened in the autumn with the winner of the £25,000 prize announced in December. Alex...
Tate Modern is to present the first major exhibition of the artwork of Steve McQueen in the UK for 20 years. The first major exhibition of his work here since he won the Turner Prize in 1999, it will feature 14 major works spanning film, photography and sculpture, including his first film shot on a Super 8 camera, Exodus 1992/97, and the recent End Credits 2012–ongoing, McQueen’s homage to the African-American singer, actor and civil...
All four artists shortlisted for the 2019 Turner Prize have been named joint winners after they collectively argued that the judges should recognise the causes of “commonality, multiplicity and solidarity”. The award ceremony in Margate on Tuesday 3rd December made history as Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani were named the collective winners after they jointly wrote to the judges. Helen Cammock read out a joint statement on stage. The artists,...
