Four artists producing works “lively” will compete for this 12 months’s Turner Prize as the distinguished British up to date artwork award celebrates its 40th anniversary, organisers Tate Britain introduced on Wednesday.
The 2024 shortlist options Philippines-born Pio Abad, Manchester-born Claudette Johnson, Scottish artist Jasleen Kaur and English artist Delaine Le Bas.
The winner walks away with £25,000 (RM148,000), whereas the remaining shortlisted artists shall be awarded £10,000 (RM59,000) every.
An exhibition of their work shall be held at Tate Britain from Sept 25 to Feb 16, whereas the prize recipient shall be introduced at a ceremony on the museum on Dec 3.
London-based Abad, 40, made the record for his Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, exhibition which included drawings, etchings and sculptures.
Johnson, 65, a founding member of the Black British Arts Movement, competes together with her career-spanning, large-scale drawings of Black ladies and men lately exhibited in London and New York.
Kaur, 37, is shortlisted for a Glasgow-exhibited paintings that includes a melange of household photographs, an Axminster carpet, a traditional Ford Escort automotive coated in an enormous doily, Scotland’s beloved Irn-Bru fizzy drink and kinetic handbells.
Le Bas, 58, was chosen for her collection of Romani-influence painted materials hung with theatrical costumes and sculptures.
Turner Prize jury chairman Alex Farquharson mentioned in an announcement unveiling the shortlist that “all 4 make work that is filled with life”.
“They present how up to date artwork can fascinate, shock and transfer us, and the way it can converse powerfully of advanced identities and reminiscences, typically by way of the subtlest of particulars,” he added.
“In the Turner Prize’s 40th 12 months, this shortlist proves that British inventive expertise is as wealthy and vibrant as ever.”
Previous victors embody now-household names akin to duo Gilbert & George, Anish Kapoor, Rachel Whiteread, Antony Gormley, Chris Ofili, Steve McQueen and Damien Hirst.
British artist Jesse Darling received final 12 months’s prize for his sculptures and installations that invoke societal breakdown.
The annual award seeks to encourage debate round new advances in up to date artwork and is given to a visible artist primarily based or born in Britain.
But that debate has typically spilled over into controversy. Ofili, for instance, received in 1998 for incorporating elephant dung into his work.
Hirst in 1995 exhibited items together with a rotting cow’s head, whereas Tracey Emin’s 1999 entry My Bed – an unmade double mattress with stained sheets surrounded by dirty underwear, condoms, slippers and empty drink bottles – attracted big consideration. – AFP
