40th Turner Prize Exhibition Launches At Tate Britain
Tate Britain today opens its highly anticipated exhibition featuring the work of the four artists shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2024
24 September 2024
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Turner Prize 40th Anniversary Nominations Announced By Tate Britain
Tate Britain revealed today the prestigious Turner Prize 2024 shortlist, featuring four standout artists: Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson, Jasleen Kaur, and Delaine Le Bas.
24 April 2024
Damien Hirst: The Blurred Lines Between Conception And Creation
Three sculptures attributed to the Turner Prize winning YBA (Young British Artist) Damien Hirst, originating from the 1990s, were created in 2017.
19 March 2024
Jesse Darling Scoops Challenging Turner Prize 2023
In the notable annals of contemporary art, one accolade stands as a career topper, and that is the Turner Prize. This year, the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne
5 December 2023
Ghislaine Leung: Interview of the Month November 2023 – Paul Carey-Kent
Ghislaine Leung is one of the four artists nominated for this year’s Turner Prize, the winner of which will be announced on 5 December.
11 November 2023
Sussex Modern: Exploring the Synergy Between Modern Art and Local Wine
The picturesque landscapes of East and West Sussex have long been a muse for artists seeking to capture the essence of its rolling hills,
21 August 2023
Twelve Out of London Art Exhibitions 2023
Artlyst has selected twelve art exhibitions that will take place out of London and around the UK during 2023.
9 January 2023
Grace Ndiritu Wins Jarman Award 2022 – £120,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year Award – 2023 Turner Prize Towner Eastbourne Jury Announced
Grace Ndiritu Wins Jarman Award 2022 – £120,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year Award – 2023 Turner Prize Towner Eastbourne Jury Announced
23 November 2022
Turner Prize To Be Presented At Towner Eastbourne In 2023
The Turner Prize has announced that it will be presented at Towner Eastbourne in 2023, as the centrepiece of the gallery’s centenary celebrations.
15 June 2022
Richard Wilson 20:50 Significant Works First Created 1987 – Sue Hubbard
Richard Wilson 20:50: Nearly one-hundred-and-five years after Marcel Duchamp’s porcelain urinal was daubed with the pseudonym ‘R..Mutt.’
1 November 2021
Turner Nominated Black Obsidian Sound System Bites The Hand Of Tate
The 2021 Turner Prize nominated artist collective, Black Obsidian Sound System has lashed out at Tate in a statement following their surprise nomination. They are demanding; ‘The right to thrive in conditions that are nurturing and supportive’.
11 May 2021
David Mach RA Unveils 100 Mile Scottish Border Wall Project
Construction has started on the ‘Irn Curtain’, a 100-mile artwork by the Turner Prize-nominated artist David Mach RA
1 April 2021
Mark Wallinger State Britain 2007 – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
In this series, Sue Hubbard explores Mark Wallinger State Britain 2007 an artwork and Turner Prize winning exhibition at the Tate Gallery.
2 March 2021
Simon Patterson Exhibition Opens At Serlachius Museum Gustaf Finland
The Turner Prize nominated artist Simon Patterson, an original participant in Damien Hirst’s Freeze exhibition and closely associated with the YBA movement in the UK is the subject of a major exhibition at the Serlachius Museum Gustaf in Finland.
8 February 2021
Turner Prize To Be Presented By British Vogue’s Edward Enninful
This year’s year’s Turner Prize will be presented by the Editor-in-Chief of British Vogue, Edward Enninful OBE, in Margate on Tuesday 3 December 2019.
6 November 2019
The Turner: An Exhibition of Past Turner Prize Nominees – Clare Henry
Glasgow: Love it or loathe it, the Tate Turner prize is here to stay. It’s a huge accolade. And you don’t need to win. Being nominated (4 each year since 1984) is almost as good.
14 October 2019
Turner Prize Plus Margate Now Festival Consolidates Seaside Town’s Art Credentials
I’ve watched Margate grow as a cultural hub since the launch of the Turner Contemporary Gallery in 2011.
28 September 2019
Zombie Formalism: Ticking The Right Boxes Be Damned – Edward Lucie-Smith
I’ve been looking again at Georgina Adam’s recently published book, The Dark Side of the Boom (Lund Humphries). It ranges over a wide variety of contemporary art world topics and is quite largely concerned with recent art world misdeeds – that is, with the commercial rather than the official sector of art world activity, insofar as these can be fully separated from one another.
3 January 2019
Gillian Wearing Exhibition Celebrating Her Parliament Square Millicent Fawcett Statue Announced
Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere, an exhibition documenting the creation of Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing’s recently- unveiled statue of Suffragist leader Millicent Fawcett, situated in Parliament Square, London.
28 October 2018
Collective Protest Turner Prize Nominee Luke Willis Thompson At Tate
A group calling themselves BBZ London have protested at Tate Britain in response to the Turner Prize nomination of Luke Willis Thompson.
26 September 2018
Turner Prize Smug-Fest Crashes And Bores – Edward Lucie-Smith
Before I go any further, let me note that, on the very day this iteration of the annual Turner Prize exhibition was revealed to the press, a review in the Evening Standard hailed it as “thrilling”.
24 September 2018
Christine Borland: A Moving Tribute To Veterans Everywhere – Clare Henry
World War 1, was one of the bloodiest wars in all history, with a total of 41 million dead. The UK suffered over a million deaths with nearly 2 million injured. With 6% of the population affected, almost every street in Britain knew blood, gore, grief and loss.
27 June 2018
Laure Prouvost Selected To Represent France At 58th Venice Biennale
Turner Prize winner Laure Prouvost has been chosen to represent France at the 58th International Art Biennial Venice which will take place from May 11 to November 24, 2019.
22 May 2018
Turner Prize Winner Martin Boyce Unveils New Commission At Tate Britain
Martin Boyce the Turner Prize-winning artist has been commissioned to create a new installation outside Tate Britain.
26 January 2018
Assemble Art Collective Open Major New Museum Survey In Vienna
The Turner Prize winning art collective Assemble: are offered a major new survey of their work at the Architekturzentrum Wien.
17 July 2017
Margate’s Turner Contemporary To Host Turner Prize In 2019
The Turner Prize, one of the worlds most coveted prizes for contemporary art will be held in 2019 at Turner Contemporary in Margate.
25 May 2017
Turner Prize 2017 Shortlist Reveals Obscure Multicultural Pick & Mix
The Turner Prize 2017 shortlist has just been announced at Tate Britain. The artists chosen from diverse multicultural backgrounds are relatively unknown.
3 May 2017
Ageism Sucks: Turner Prize Scraps Under Fifty Age Restriction
The Tate announced today that The Turner Prize will scrap the stipulation that shortlisted artists must be under 50.
29 March 2017
Turner Prize Artists Gallerists and Curators Unite Against Right-Wing Extremism
Two hundred plus well-known artists, gallerists, and curators lead by Turner Prize winners Anish Kapoor, Wolfgang Tillmans, Steve McQueen, Douglas Gordon, Mark Wallinger and Yinka Shonibare have signed their support to the “Hands Off Our Revolution” movement. Founded by artist Adam Broomberg, the group was launched in reaction to the Brexit vote, the refugee crisis, and the election of Donald Trump as President of the US.
17 February 2017
Turner Prize Winners Unite To Help Fund Glasgow School Of Art Fire
Several Turner Prize Winners including Antony Gormley Anish Kapoor and Grayson Perry have created artworks from found material taken from the fire-damaged Glasgow School of Art to raise funds for the restoration.
29 January 2017
Top 10 – Outlandish Turner Prize Nominees
Love it or loath it, the Turner Prize award always raises a critic’s scrutinising eyebrow. Some past prize winners are now household names, others have sunk into the hinterlands of obscurity. Here are some of the more outlandish past entrants.
23 December 2016
Quiz – How much do you know about the Turner Prize?
How much do you know about the Turner Prize?
8 December 2016