Turner prize

Four prominent contemporary artists have been named as contenders for the U.K.'s esteemed Turner Prize, now in its 40th year.

The Turner Prize 2009 exhibition at the Tate Britain

Prodger’s film Bridgit takes the viewer inside her head as she searches for identity both at home and in the Scottish landscape. She talks about her early working life, encounters in public toilets and fighting the label ‘iPhone artist’

The Turner Prize, Britain's top art award, has named the four artists nominated for its 2023 edition.

Shedboatshed (Mobile Architecture No. 2), 2005, Simon Starling, Wooden shed, 390 x 600 x 340 cmRealised specifically for the exhibition Cuttings, Shedboatshed (Mobile Architecture No.2) is a reinterpretation of the idea of mobile architecture. The project involves the movement of a found structure, an old wooden shed, from one riverside location to another. This journey of 8 km downstream from Schweizerhalle to the centre of Basel was undertaken through the temporary mutation of the shed…

The 2020 Erasmus Prize was awarded to British artist Grayson Perry.

Turner Prize-nominee Anthea Hamilton 'Reimagines Kettle's Yard' at Hepworth Wakefield, her works resonating with those from the Kettle's Yard collection.

Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani fill Margate’s Turner Contemporary with imagined communities and cities

The Oxford-born artist won the £25,000 award for sculptures made of commonplace objects conveying ‘the messy reality of life’, and unsettling ‘notions of labour, class, Britishness and power’

From Oscar Murillo’s gawping human effigies to Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s suspenseful “ear-witness” accounts of a Syrian death camp, this year’s Turner Prize nominees make politics their blatant target, with gripping results.