Since its inception in 1984, the Turner Prize has become one of the world’s best-known visual arts prizes. Named after landscape artist JMW Turner, each year four artists are short-listed and the prize awarded for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation in the preceding year.
Past winners include Damien Hirst, Grayson Perry, Tracey Emin and Rachel Whiteread and, nowadays, artists can choose to show any recent work and they make their selection in collaboration with curators from Tate Britain. The competition is restricted to artists or exhibitors working primarily in Britain or an artist born in Britain working anywhere. Every other year, the final exhibition of the artists’ work goes ‘on tour’, away from the Tate Modern, with the Ferens Art Gallery in Britain’s 2017 City of Culture – Hull – chosen this year. The winners is awarded a £25,000 prize with the three other finalists receiving £5,000.
The 2017 Turner Prize Short-List
Rosalind Nashashibi (9/2 with Ladbrokes) works primarily in film but also makes paintings and prints. Her films use the camera as an eye to convey moments and events, merging everyday observations with fantastical and mythological elements. The films are often meditative and sensuous and utilise an array of filmic conventions.
Nashashibi often presents her films alongside objects and paintings, such as her recent exhibition Two Tribes at Murray Guy in New York, in which the artist exhibited a series of abstract paintings that expanded on themes in her film work. She’s 43 and works in London.Hurvin
Hurvin Anderson’s (6/4) vibrant paintings draw on the genres of still-life, landscape and portraiture to explore the way community and identity can be represented. Born in Birmingham to Jamaican parents, Anderson’s practice touches upon his Jamaican heritage as well as referencing wider art history. Repeated images such as the interior of barbershops appear throughout his paintings as a place synonymous with enterprise, affirmation and community for many Afro-Caribbean migrants.
His work pays homage to this cultural history and explores themes of memory, identity and nationhood.
Lubaina Himid (2/1 with Ladbrokes) was born in 1954 in Zanzibar, Tanzania. She studied Theatre Design at Wimbledon College of Art and an M.A in Cultural History at the Royal College of Art. She is Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Central Lancashire.
Himid makes paintings, prints, drawings and installations which celebrate Black creativity and the people of the African diaspora while challenging institutional invisibility.
Andrea Buttner (7/2) was born in 1972 in Stuttgart, Germany and studied at the Royal College of Art, London, Humboldt University of Berlin and Berlin University of the Arts.
Her exhibits have included printmaking, sculpture, painting, film and collaborative projects. Her subjects are equally broad ranging, exploring topics including botany, Catholicism, philosophy and art history and she often references other artists.
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