Turner prize 2021: a collective effort to make art radical again
Pickled cows and unmade beds: the art award has always challenged convention. But in 2021 it is going further, by abolishing individual artists altogetherThe Turner prize has given us some great...
View ArticleTurner prize 2021 review – lashings of creativity in a collectivist clash
Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, CoventryThe decision to have only artists collectives nominated has resulted in a show that ranges from a recreation of a 1980s Northern Irish gay bar to pretentious...
View ArticleTurner prize 2021; Summer Exhibition 2021 review – there can be no winner
Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry; Royal Academy, LondonSocial activism not art is the benchmark of a collective-juggling Turner prize. And Yinka Shonibare begins to shake things up at art’s annual pro-am...
View ArticleThe Guardian view on the Turner prize: too worthy for its own good? | Editorial
The competition was set up to be populist. In its current introspective mood, though, it risks pushing away the publicThe Turner prize this year is not about celebrating, or creating, big names in the...
View ArticleNorthern Ireland art group Array Collective wins 2021 Turner prize
Belfast-based artists respond to issues such as abortion, queer liberation, gay rights and mental healthA group of artists from across the sectarian divide in Northern Ireland has won the 2021 Turner...
View Article‘If only it actually served pints’: our critic on the pub that took the...
The Array Collective’s recreation of a pub is a cheerful call for diversity in Northern Ireland. But it’s like a theatre set without a play – and has only a thin smear of artistic meaningThe verdict is...
View ArticleThe 11-strong Array collective on winning the Turner prize: ‘We’ll have to...
The Belfast artists built an illicit drinking den and filled it with banners, ashtrays and scrawled-on mirrors to create a pointed portrait of Northern Ireland. What will they do with the £25,000...
View ArticleMissing the point of the Array Collective | Letters
Declan McGonagle challenges Jonathan Jones’s view of the Turner prize-winning art collectiveIt was disappointing to read Jonathan Jones’s patronising pat on the head for the Array Collective after...
View Article‘I was blown away by the work I saw’: the Turner prize and the rise of...
Six years ago, they were told they shouldn’t be in the same building as ‘artists of calibre’. But, with a Turner nomination under their belt, life is changing for the Project Art Works collective and...
View ArticleGrenville Davey obituary
Turner prize-winning artist of the YBA generation who refused to play the fame gameWhen the sculptor Grenville Davey won the Turner prize in 1992 the Guardian described him as the “rank outsider”. The...
View ArticleTurner prize: Trafalgar Square whipped cream and fly sculpture among shortlist
Heather Phillipson, Ingrid Pollard, Veronica Ryan and Sin Wai Kin in running as prize returns to LiverpoolAdrian Searle: this is a lip-smacking shortlistThe artist who installed the fourth plinth...
View ArticleBreadfruit, cherries and drag: this is a lip-smacking Turner prize shortlist
Made up of artists from different generations, this all women/non-binary shortlist shows up the preoccupations they have in common: identity, migration and a sense of placeWhat a good Turner prize...
View Article‘They are totally smashing it!’ Bernardine Evaristo on the artistic triumph...
Artists, novelists, actors, poets: from the Venice Biennale to Bridgerton, Black women in their 50s and 60s are finally getting the recognition they deserve, says the pioneering Booker winnerWhen I...
View ArticleTurner’s turn-ons and Freud’s family affair – the week in art
The great landscape artist’s lesser known erotic art goes on show while Lucian Freud is at Sigmund’s house and Jay Jopling’s White Cube crew are off to the countryside – all in your weekly...
View ArticleTurner prize 2022 review – slapstick, drag and hairnets at the end of the world
Tate LiverpoolHeather Phillipson’s end-times installation benefits from reconfiguration while Sin Wai Kin’s gender-swapping work offers a wealth of possibilitiesThis year’s Turner prize exhibition...
View ArticleTurner prize 2022 review – as baffling as ever
Tate LiverpoolIngrid Pollard, Veronica Ryan, Heather Phillipson and Sin Wai Kin go head to head in a jumble of boyband promos, apocalyptic raves and the ghosts of racismThere was a time when the...
View ArticleVeronica Ryan is a sensational choice as Turner prize-winner
The Montserrat-born sculptor’s mature, meditative works are the opposite of the brash art that usually impresses the judges – and cap the first Turner worth caring about in yearsVeronica Ryan is much...
View ArticleVeronica Ryan wins 2022 Turner prize for work including Windrush tribute
Artist wins for work comprising UK’s first permanent public artwork honouring Windrush generationVeronica Ryan, who created the UK’s first permanent artwork to honour the Windrush generation, has won...
View Article‘People wouldn’t show my work – or even reply to me’: Veronica Ryan on her...
The oldest artist ever to win the Turner spent years feeling as if she was invisible. Now, her quiet, contemplative sculptures have finally been rewarded with the British art world’s biggest prizeIt’s...
View ArticleAt last the Turner prize gets it. Artists improve with age | Martha Gill
Veronica Ryan is the ‘oldest ever winner’ at 66. Here’s to more recognition of decades spent honing a skillAt 66, Veronica Ryan has become the oldest ever winner of the Turner prize. Heartening news –...
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