Tate Britain announces recipients of £10,000 Turner bursaries

Cash awards given to 10 artists who would have been in the running for cancelled 2020 prize

A “fantastic and exciting” list of ten artists who would all have been in the running for this year’s Turner prize have been named as the recipients of £10,000 bursaries.

Tate Britain on Thursday announced the names of artists who will receive no-strings-attached cash awards in place of this year’s abandoned competition.

Arika, a political arts organisation based in Edinburgh;

The Oxford-based artist Shawanda Corbett;

The Glasgow-based artist and singer Jamie Crewe;

Sean Edwards, whose work was in the Welsh Pavilion of the 2019 Venice Biennale;

The London-based artist Sidsel Meineche Hansen;

Ima Abasi-Okon, who lives and works in London and Amsterdam;

The London-based artist Imran Perretta; and

Alberta Whittle, who lives and works between Barbados, Scotland and South Africa.