Shortlisted artist Barbara Walker’s work explores issues of racial identity and interrogates Britain’s past.
Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London
From the shock tactics of 90s artists starved of public funding to a pivot towards an art based in community and activism today.
A member of gallery staff sits in one of 2019’s winning pieces called ‘Collective Conscience’ by artist Oscar Murillo.
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This more equitable approach might bring the prize closer to Turner’s original vision of his legacy.
British artists (L-R) Oscar Murillo, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock and Tai Shani celebrate after being announced as the joint winners of Turner Prize 2019.
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Why are we so surprised that artists are also demanding changes to the way prizes are awarded?
Lubaina Himid’s A Fashionable Marriage.
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Turner Prize’s diverse shortlist has made for a coherent and important show.
Burning issue.
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Was setting fire to all that money immoral waste, ritual sacrifice or artistic statement?
Courtesy the artist, Hollybush Gardens and National Museums Liverpool: International Slavery Museum. Photograph by Stuart Whipps
A sense of renewal and purpose in the prize sparked by a lifting of the age limit and looking beyond London.
Helen Marten © Tate
Helen Marten, this year’s winner, has revealed a sense of something progressive and pioneering.
© Assemble
Perhaps the “art” label designates Assemble and the Granby project as outsiders, unique, creating something that can’t be replicated.
Infrastruktur, Nicole Wermers, 2015 at Tramway in Glasgow.
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Shortlisted for the Turner in 1997, Christine Borland discusses the suffocating nature of the prize and its shortsighted attempts to branch out.
Duncan Campbell, It for Others 2013.
Courtesy of Duncan Campbell and Rodeo Gallery.
Duncan Campbell has won the 2014 Turner Prize. This is a well-deserved accolade for an extraordinary work (although I preferred Tris Vonna-Mitchell for many reasons, maybe a yearning for that clunking…
Ciara Phillips, Things Shared, 2014.
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Earlier this year, Turner Prize nominee Duncan Campbell said that in making films he attempts to find what the writer Samuel Beckett termed “a form that accommodates the mess”. It is exactly this search…
Ciara Phillips, Workshop (2010–ongoing), 2013, The Showroom, London.
Courtesy the artist and The Showroom, London. © Ciara Phillips.
In 1973, Marcel Duchamp said: “Art is not about itself, but the attention we bring to it.” This is something that this year’s Turner Prize shortlist brings to the fore. The shortlisted artists all have…