Turner prize: the beauty lies in its orchestration
6 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Martin Boyce deserves the award for a beautiful and unexpected installation – his art is a sort of elegy to modernist purity
The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist. Between 1991 and 2016, only artists under the age of 50 were eligible. The prize is awarded at Tate Britain every other year, with various venues outside of London being used in alternate years.
6 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Martin Boyce deserves the award for a beautiful and unexpected installation – his art is a sort of elegy to modernist purity
31 August 2011 • Mark Westall
People open up to Gillian Wearing. So the artist made a feature film in which members of the public divulge their innermost secrets – with shocking results
5 June 2011 • Mark Westall
From rolling news footage to anti-capitalist slogans and the last work of an artist killed by sniper fire, the medium and the message went hand in hand at this year’s biennale
7 December 2010 • Mark Westall
Susan Philipsz (cool name) received the £25,000 prize at the Tate Britain in London for her recording of herself singing… Read More
1 December 2008 • Mark Westall
With just hours to go until tonight’s Turner prize ceremony, the prize is already won, at least according to bookmakers… Read More