May 13, 2008
Turner Prize Nominations 2008
Since 1984, the Turner Prize has been awarded to artists to celebrate new developments in contemporary art. The prize is awarded each year to: ‘a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the twelve months preceding’. And on a good year, it normally means a little ‘controversy’ - last year the prize was won by an artists dressed in a brown bear suit walking around the Tate gallery after closing. OK, and an antiwar protest piece.
This year four sculpture, film and mixed media artists have been shortlisted: British artist Mark Leckey, Bangladeshi Runa Islam, Polish-born Goshka Macuga and Irish sculptor and painter Cathy Wilkes. The Sun has already highlighted the ‘looney’ work of Mark Leckey. Leckey’s spliced images of Marge Simpson walking out of the cinema and the artist himself with a Simpsons mask on in a performance lecture and installation, entitled Cinema in the Round.
Runa Islam has some quite poignant images - the one above is entitled ‘Be The First To See What You See As You See It’.
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