Helen Marten, Brood and Bitter Pass (2016), via Art Observed

Helen Marten, the Macclesfield-born, London-based sculptor known for her disjointed, endlessly inventive configurations of materials, has taken home the 2016 Turner Prize, the second major award that the artist has won in the past month.  Marten, who takes home a£25,000 purse for the award, was selected from a pool of artists including Anthea Hamilton, Michael Dean, and Josephine Pryde.

Helen Marten, via W Magazine

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Anthea Hamilton, Project for a Door (After Gaetano Pesce) (2016), vi Art Observed

With the early weeks of the fall art season comes the opening of the annual Turner Prize exhibition, bringing together works from each of the artists’ nominated for Britain’s highest honor for contemporary art.  This year’s exhibition, one of the more cohesively selected, and consistently inventive in recent years, has already earned impressive accolades, with a striking quartet of artist’s each exploring constructions of space and identity through diverse historical, technical, and material connections. (more…)

The Turner Prize shortlist has been announced for 2016, The Guardian reports, counting Anthea Hamilton, Michael Dean, Helen Marten and Josephine Pryde among those who will show at the annual Turner Prize exhibition in competition for the £25,000 prize. (more…)

The Granby Four Estates, via Assemble

The 2015 Turner Prize has been announced, with the 18-member London-based architectural collective Assemble taking home the £25,000 prize for its ambitious redesign and assistance in socially re-engineering a series of derelict residences in the Liverpool neighborhood of Toxteth.  The award was presented this evening at the Tramway in Glasgow. (more…)

Artist, musician and writer Kim Gordon will be present the Turner Prize award on Monday, the 7th of December 2015, at the Tramway in Glasgow.  “Kim Gordon has been at the cutting edge of culture for many years and we are delighted to welcome her to Scotland to present this prestigious contemporary art prize,” says Amanda Catto, Head of Visual Arts, Creative Scotland, said. (more…)

The Shortlist for the 2015 Turner Prize has been announced, featuring a diverse body of artists and practices that diverges wildly from last year’s heavily video and film-centric affair.  The 2015 Prize exhibition will be staged this year at the Tramway arts venue in Glasgow.  The Turner Prize, a £25,000 award, is Britain’s most prominent recognition in the arts, and this year will go to either London artist Bonnie Camplin, German-born artist Nicole Wermers, London-based arts collective Assemble (which adopted an abandoned housing estate and converted it into a new community space), or artist Janice Kerbel.  Working in a wide variety of media, social practice and community milieu factor heavily into the pieces on view this year.

The Turner Prize exhibition will open this October in Glasgow. (more…)

Laure Prouvost, For Forgetting (Installation View), via Art Observed

Laure Prouvost has a lot to say.  Creating multifaceted, occasionally dizzying multimedia installations using wood, paint, video and various props, the 2013 Turner Prize Winner’s work is hyper-loaded in its signifiers and subjects, moving rapidly from the divine to the profane and back, all expressed with a masterful storytelling bent.  It’s just this line, in fact, that the artist makes express use of in her first U.S. installation, occupying the lobby of the New Museum, telling a lightning-fast narrative of identity theft and financial scamming in the post-digital economy.

Laure Prouvost, For Forgetting, 2014 (still). Installation and video. Copyright the artist. Courtesy the artist and MOTINTERNATIONAL, London and Brussels (more…)

Artist Martin Creed is profiled in the New York Times, previewing the artist’s upcoming career retrospective at the Hayward Gallery in London, and discussing his unique take on conceptions of the word “art.”  “I would not disagree with me not being an artist, because I don’t know what art is,” Creed states. “I’m just making a painting or a sculpture or whatever it may be. I’m not making art, because art would seem to me to be in the eye of the beholder.” (more…)

Laure Prouvost, via The Guardian

Tonight Laure Prouvost was awarded the Turner Prize of £25,000 ($33,850).  Prouvost was nominated for her works, Wantee, commissioned with Grizedale Arts, which was shown as part of the Schwitters in Britain exhibition at Tate Britain, and Farfromwords: car mirrors eat raspberries when swimming through the sun, to swallow sweet smells, which was made during her residency in Italy as the recipient of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women and which was exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery.  Born in Lille, France in 1978, Prouvost has lived in London since she began studying at Central St. Martins arts college.  Prouvost is known for films which frequently employ deliberate language misuse, text and image juxtapositions, fast-paced cuts, montage, and which are situated within atmospheric installations.  The 2013 Turner Prize exhibition runs until January 5th, 2014 at Ebrington in Derry~Londonderry. (more…)

David Shrigley, Life Model (2012), via Turner Prize

As the 2013 art calendar draws towards its conclusion this December, the annual Turner Prize exhibition has opened its doors, this time in the Northern Irish town of Derry-Londonderry, to four of Great Britain’s most prominent and talented artists: Tino Seghal, David Shrigley, Laure Prouvost and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.  The annual prize, which will be awarded today, December 2nd, opens to one of its most diverse sets of final entries in past years, spanning a complex body of work that includes performance, choreography, video, sculpture, drawing, and painting among a worldly group of artists that call the UK their home.

Tino Seghal, via Turner Prize (more…)

The Tate has purchased the instructions to artist Martin Creed’s notorious Work No. 227: The Lights Going On and Off.  Fittingly titled, the 2001 work involves the constant flicking of light in a room from on to off and back again, and won Creed the Turner Prize when it was first unveiled, dispute vocal protests from tabloids and artists.  “It is an important work. It is a sober minimalist piece in a long line of artists using every day materials for potent formal and psychological effect. It’s not easy viewing.”  Says critic Louisa Buck.

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The Shortlist for the 2013 Turner Prize was announced today, including artists Laure Prouvost, Tino Sehgal, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and David Shrigley.  The winner of the award will be announced on December 2nd, and the presentation of the award this year will occur in Derry-Londonderry in Northern Ireland as part of its year as UK City of Culture.  “The Turner prize is on everyone’s lips. There is a level of real excitement. Having the Turner prize in Derry will create the biggest impact the Turner prize will have had on anywhere in its history.”  says executive producer for the City of Culture Graeme Farrow. (more…)

UK-based arts commissioning body Artangel has announced an open call for proposals, offering £1 million in backing for the five chosen projects.  Artangel has a history of backing Turner prize winners and shortlist candidates, including Jeremy Deller’s 2004 Turner Prize-winning “The Battle of Orgreave” re-enactment, and  is seeking proposals that attempt the fantastic and seemingly impossible.  “We hope to find younger artists who will put forward amazing proposals. We feel that we want to get ideas that are forming in the darkness into our field of vision.” Says Artangel Director James Lingwood.

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Continuing its recent policy to hold the Turner Prize presentation ceremony outside of London on alternate years, the Tate Britain has announced that the 2015 awards ceremony will be held for the first time in Glasgow, Scotland at the Tramway Arts Centre.  This will be the fourth time that the Turner Prize will be awarded outside of London, and could in fact be the first Turner Prize awarded outside of the UK, pending the results of the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum.

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The Turner Prize will be announced this evening by Jude Law at at the Tate Britain.  Here is video of the exhibited work. (more…)

Grayson Perry, Turner prize-winner, plans to build an art-encrusted holiday residence resembling a shrine in Essex, which will be devoted to a mythical Essex woman named Julie. The elaborate house will be rented out from 2014 onward as part of Alain de Botton’s effort to introduce a type of avant-garde experience into travel. (more…)

Four Turner Prize shortlisted artists showcased their work last night at the show’s inauguration.  For the first time a performance artist has been nominated, Londoner Spartacus Chetwynd.  When asked about if her art is contemporary, the artist, who lives and works in a nudist colony, and who arrived in a beard, stated, “We’re all alive at the moment so that would make it contemporary.” Once again on display at Tate Britain, the show also presents the work of Glaswegian Luke Fowler, Londoner Elizabeth Price and Londoner Paul Noble and runs through Jan 6th. (more…)

A Turner prize-nominated piece was rescued from a condemned council flat in London. Roger Hiorns‘s salvaged ‘Seizure’ will be on display at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Wakefield next Spring.

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‪‬Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller, who recently created an inflatable, bouncy Stonehenge sculpture, to represent Britain at Venice Biennale 2013, joining the ranks of Lucian Freud, Anish Kapoor, Tracy Emin, and 2011’s Mike Nelson as UK representatives

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‪‬Turner Prize winning artist Mark Leckey to release audio from video piece ‘Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore’ (1999) on vinyl May 21, with audio from GreenScreenRefridgerator on the B side

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Martin Creed, Work No. 890, DON’T WORRY (2008).  Image courtesy of the Tate Liverpool.

Turner Prize-winning artist Martin Creed brings seven new works to the Tate Liverpool this spring as part of their ARTIST ROOMS collection, in conjunction with the National Galleries of Scotland. Creed’s works range in media from paintings to a neon installation; “Refreshing, unexpected and humorous, Creed’s work challenges our preconceptions and rearranges the rules of conceptual art,” reads the exhibition’s press release.

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‪‬Rachel Whiteread, the first female Turner Prize winner, designs bronze and gold-leaf frieze for London’s Whitechapel Gallery facade in time for Olympic games this June, based on the building’s Tree of Life motif with donated funds exceeding £200,000 [AO Newslink]

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Martin Boyce, Turner Prize award ceremony, December 5, 2011 via Daily Mail

After much anticipation, the Turner Prize winner has been announced.  Martin Boyce won with a series of installed sculptures that was originally shown in the Venice Biennale in 2009. He is one of three Scottish artists to accept the prize within the last three years. The exhibition transformed a room at the Baltic Arts Center in Gateshead, who held the competition for the very first time. The well known photographer Mario Testino presented the £25,000 award last night. Karla Black, another Scottish artist, along with Hilary Lloyd and George Shaw were the other shortlisted artists to be nominated.

Martin Boyce, Do Words Have Voices, 2009 via Daily Mail

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Martin Boyce, Do Words Have Voices, installation view (2011). All images courtesy of BALTIC Centre of Contemporary Art Gateshead.

The Turner Prize, began in 1984 to honor an outstanding British artist under the age of fifty, has announced the 2011 shortlisted artists: Karla Black, Martin Boyce, Hilary Lloyd, and George Shaw. Judged on work from the previous year, the four nominees also present an exhibition from October through January, this year at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art Gateshead— the first time outside a Tate venue. A program featuring the live announcement of the winner, decided by jury, will be broadcast on the British Channel 4 on December 5, 2011.

Karla Black, Doesn’t Care In Words, installation view (2011).

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