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7 unusual facts about Turner prize


2011 Turner Prize

The prize exhibition was held at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead from 21 October 2011 to 8 January 2012, the first to be held outside London since the 2007 Turner Prize exhibition was held at Tate Liverpool, and the first time the exhibition has ever been held at a non-Tate venue.

All In The Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry

All In The Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry is a 2012 documentary television series on United Kingdom station Channel 4, starring Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry.

David Mach

Following several shows and public installations, Mach was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1988.

Philippa Perry

She is married to Grayson Perry, the artist and 2003 Turner Prize winner and they have a daughter, Florence, born in 1992.

Tate's purchase of The Upper Room

The Stuckists demonstrated outside the Turner Prize on 6 December 2005 against the purchase of The Upper Room with slogans such as "£25,000 Turner Prize, £705,000 Trustee Prize", and were approached by Serota, who became tense, according to Stuckist leader, Thomson.

The World Won't Listen

British Turner Prize artist Phil Collins produced an artwork inspired by The World Won't Listen with the same name, which was filmed in Turkey, Indonesia and Colombia.

Toddington, Gloucestershire

Toddington Manor lies between New Town and Old Town, and was bought by the Turner Prize-winning artist Damien Hirst in 2005; he plans to turn the manor into a museum of his work.


Acid Brass

Acid Brass was a musical collaboration between Turner-Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller and the Williams Fairey Brass Band.

Artraker

The Artraker Annual Award differs from other awards such as the Turner Prize or the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.

Dalton-in-Furness

Dalton is also the birthplace of award-winning artist Richard T. Slone and the town in which Sky News presenter Steve Dixon and Turner Prize winner Keith Tyson grew up and attended school.

Duncan Lloyd

Lloyd has had his painting exhibited at London's White Cube Gallery as part of an exhibition of selected artists hand picked by 2010 Turner prize nominee Dexter Dalwood

Identity and change

(A concept explored by the artist Simon Starling, who turned a shed into a working boat and then back into a shed, winning him the 2005 Turner Prize.)

Tate Etc.

Articles: Peter Blake's A-Z polaroids, Paula Rego's illustrations for Jayne Eyre, Tom Morton on Tate Modern's 'Common Wealth' exhibition, Alan Davie: Myth & Gesture, Turner Prize: Justin Westover photographs the shortlisted artists.

Vase

It has since been developed and in 2003 the winner of the Turner Prize was Grayson Perry, for vase art.

Victor Burgin

In 1986, Burgin was nominated for the Turner Prize for his exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and Kettle's Yard Gallery in Cambridge and for a collection of his theoretical writings (The End of Art Theory) and a monograph of his visual work (Between).


see also

2009 Turner Prize

The four nominees for the Tate gallery's 2009 Turner Prize were Enrico David, Roger Hiorns, Lucy Skaer and Richard Wright .

Bruce Munro

In an article in the Financial Times, the curator, Turner prize judge and broadcaster Richard Cork called Bruce Munro's Light Shower 'spectacular'.

Callum Innes

In 1995 he was shortlisted for the Turner Prize which was won by Damien Hirst.

David Bonneville

Bonneville has also worked for Raimondo Rezzonico Awarded producer Paulo Branco, Turner prize-winning artist Douglas Gordon, HanWay Films, Universal Pictures and at the BBC.

Joseph Skibell

His work has been translated into a half-dozen languages, and he has won the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Steven Turner Prize for First Fiction and the Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Book of Fiction from Texas Institute of Letters.

Martin Creed

In the decade since winning the Turner Prize he has exhibited extensively throughout the world, including large survey shows at Trussardi Foundation, Milan ('I Like Things'), Bard College, New York ('Feelings'), and a touring exhibition which started at Ikon Gallery Birmingham and toured to Hiroshima and Seoul.

Stuckism in Australia

The Stuckists have since become an accepted part of the UK art scene and are studied in the educational system, but still remain largely ostracised by the art establishment for their stringent criticisms of it, particularly of the Britart, the Saatchi Gallery and the Turner Prize.

Studio Voltaire

Cathy Wilkes presented a mixed media installation entitled Mummy’s here, the first exhibition since her nomination for the Turner Prize in 2008.