Turner Prize

The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of 50. Awarding the prize is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain. Since its beginnings in 1984 it has become the United Kingdom's most publicised art award. The award represents all media.

As of 2004, the monetary award was established at £40,000. There have been different sponsors, including Channel 4 television and Gordon's Gin. The prize has been awarded by various distinguished celebrities: in 2006 this was Yoko Ono, and in 2012 the award was presented by Jude Law.

It is a controversial event, mainly for the exhibits, such as The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a shark in formaldehyde by Damien Hirst and My Bed, a dishevelled bed by Tracey Emin. Controversy has also come from other directions, including a Culture Minister (Kim Howells) criticising exhibits, a guest of honour (Madonna) swearing, a prize judge (Lynn Barber) writing in the press, and a speech by Sir Nicholas Serota (about the purchase of a trustee's work).

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The forgotten genius who taught Damien Hirst and inspired Britart

The Times/The Sunday Times 26 Apr 2025
BETA. Today's Quizle. Q. Test your knowledge. In 1996 the artist Helen Chadwick’s career was on the rise. In 1987 she became one of the first women to be nominated for the Turner prize ... Culture. Art. Related articles. ART REVIEW ... ....
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Sophie Turner & Peregrine Pearson: Is It Over?

The Hollywood Gossip 25 Apr 2025
Sophie Turner is dropping a hefty breakup hint ... Sophie Turner attends the Louis Vuitton Womenswear Fall/Winter 2025-2026 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on March 10, 2025. Did Sophie Turner split with Peregrine Pearson? ... Sophie Turner attends the LVMH Prize Cocktail as part of Paris Fashion Week on March 02, 2023....
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Mohammed Sami emerges as favourite in predictable Turner prize 2025 shortlist

The Conversation 24 Apr 2025
The Turner prize is the world’s most prestigious award for contemporary art ... Turner, the prize used to be a huge media affair ... Famous for courting controversy, the Turner prize shortlist was often featured on the front pages of tabloid newspapers – Tracey Emin’s “unmade bed” being a point in case....
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Who is shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2025? Check out the four artists

London Evening Standard 24 Apr 2025
A guide to the artists nominated for the 2025 Turner Prize, with the exhibition taking place in Bradford this year... ....
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“Art Saved My Life”: Turner Prize Winner Jasleen Kaur Talks Courage, Community, And Her “Chaotic” Process

Vogue 24 Apr 2025
When it was brought to Tate for the Turner Prize show, “The conservators had to tell me – you know there’s rat droppings all over your work? I said, ‘Aye, there probably is!’” ... Since winning the Turner in December, she has gallery representation, too, joining a stellar roster of former Prize winners at Hollybush Gardens ... Main look ... Trainers, Nike ... ....
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A Turner Prize shortlist that J.M.W. Turner might have appreciated

Straits Times 24 Apr 2025
Nominees for the prestigious art award include an Iraqi painter and a Canadian installation artist .......
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Thursday briefing: Rachel Reeves heads to Washington in pursuit of a trade deal – will ...

AOL 24 Apr 2025
NHS ... The Turner prize shortlist is out, and features all sorts of works from videotape sculptures to war trauma paintings. For his money, though, Jonathan Jones thinks “this shortlist’s lack of connection with the realities of contemporary Britain is just another way to dig the ailing Turner prize deeper into irrelevance and empty bourgeois ritual”....
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Autistic artist with speech limitations on Turner Prize shortlist

The Times/The Sunday Times 23 Apr 2025
An autistic artist with severe speech limitations has been shortlisted for the Turner Prize after wowing jurors with her large sculptures that require enormous amounts of increasingly scarce VHS tape ... Red car draped in a doily wins Turner Prize....
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An irrelevant bourgeois ritual: this year’s Turner prize shortlist is the soppiest ever

The Guardian 23 Apr 2025
But back in the 1990s, my child, Britain got itself in hilarious knots about conceptual art, the readymade and whether a pickled shark or elephant dung can be art, with the Turner prize as battleground....
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Videotape sculptures and wartime paintings among Turner prize shortlist

The Guardian 23 Apr 2025
... wartime trauma in the genteel rooms of Blenheim Palace, have been shortlisted for this year’s Turner Prize....
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The 2025 Turner Prize shortlist has been announced – and there’s one clear favourite

AOL 23 Apr 2025
Last year, when the Turner Prize turned 40, there were calls for it to be retired ... This year’s shortlist – announced on April 23, the 250th birthday of the radical British artist, JMW Turner (after whom the prize is named) – may not allay such concerns. It’s respectable and hard to fault, rather than controversial ... ....

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