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Crystal cave up for Turner Prize

Source: BBC
London : United Kingdom | 7 months ago  
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Roger Hiorns filled a derelict flat with sparkling blue chemical structures while Richard Wright paints directly onto gallery walls. Surrealist Enrico David and Lucy Skaer, who bases her work on photographs she has found, also compete for the prize. The winner of the £25,000 award...
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  • News Source: The Scotsman | 7 months ago
    Turner Prize yesterday, in a move that startled the art world. Two of the four nominees for the £25,000 prize, Lucy Skaer and Richard Wright, live and work in Scotland, and the nominations were seen as a fresh public endorsement of the thriving...
  • News Source: The Independent | 7 months ago
    Seizure by Roger Hiorns is 'a magical cave of blue crystals' Ever since its conception, the Tate Gallery's Turner Prize has been attacked and pilloried for its left-field choice of artists to represent the best in contemporary art. And every year,...
  • News Source: Times Online | 7 months ago
    Hiorns uses unpromising base materials such as liquid detergent, fire and his own semen to create “something wonderful, out of a fairytale”, according to Andrea Schlieker, director of the Folkestone Triennial and one of five Turner Prize jurors.
  • News Source: Times Online | 7 months ago
    The Turner Prize had begun to feel a bit like the art world equivalent of one of those old Soviet despots. It had died years ago but nobody could quite bring themselves to bury it. And so, year after year, we continued to file dutifully past its...
  • News Source: Asian Age | 7 months ago
    The annual prize, in its 25th year, has earned a reputation as a provocative and often unpopular contest that has Britain, tabloid media included, heatedly debating "What is art?" The four nominated artists in 2009 revealed on Tuesday could be short...
  • News Source: Ansa | 7 months ago
    An Italian artist was named Tuesday as one of the four finalists for Britain's Turner Prize. Enrico David, 43, from the Marche port city of Ancona, has lived and worked in London since the 1980s. The surrealist installation artist was recently...
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