24 Apr Who Are the Nominees for the 2024 Turner Prize? | News
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Jesse Darling won the prize in 2023 over fellow nominees Ghislaine Leung, Rory Pilgrim, and Barbara Walker. Who’s in the running this year?
Nominees for Britain’s most prestigious contemporary art award, The Turner Prize, were announced at London’s Tate Britain this morning. They are Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson, Jasleen Kaur and Delaine Le Bas.
Personal histories and themes of familiar life unite the work of each artist, with Alex Farquharson, Director of Tate Britain and chair of the Turner Prize, remarking that each artist makes work ‘full of life’.
Pio Abad is nominated for his solo exhibition To Those Sitting in Darkness at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Through drawing, etching and sculpture, Abad highlights overlooked histories of artefacts in the Ashmolean and draws parallels with familiar household items.
Claudette Johnson’s solo exhibitions Presence at the Courtauld Gallery, London and Drawn Out has earned her nomination for the prize. The jury noted her sensitive yet dramatic use of line, colour and scale, which communicates a certain intimacy with her subjects.
Jasleen Kaur is nominated for Alter Altar at Glasgow’s Tramway. Through evicative combination of sound and sculpture, Kaur addresses family memory and community struggle. Like Abad, Kaur also utilises familiar household items in her work; irn-bru, a giant doily and kinteic hand bells all recall the artist’s upbringing in Glasgow’s Sikh community.
Delaine Le Bas has been nominated for her solo exhibition at Secession, Vienna, Incipit Vita Nova. Here Begins The New Life/A New Life Is Beginning., where she transformed the gallery through theatrical costumes, sculptures and painted hung fabrics.
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