Turner Prize shortlist revealed in Liverpool
May 8 2007

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AN ARTIST who confirmed his international reputation with a show in Liverpool seven years ago is among the four finalists for Britain’s top art prize.

Mark Wallinger, 48, is shortlisted for the £25,000 Turner Price, being held in Liverpool for the first time in its 22-year history.

Wallinger, a multi-media artist, is joined by Zarina Bhimji, 43, a photo and video specialist; sculptor Nathan Coley, 39; and Mike Nelson, 41, who does on-site works.

The Turner Prize is awarded annually to a British artist under 50.

Work by the shortlisted candidates will be show in an exhibition at Tate Liverpool, opening on October 19.

The winner will be announced in Liverpool on December 3, during a live television and radio broadcast.

The prize coming to Liverpool is seen as the ideal curtain-raiser for the city’s Capital of Culture celebrations.

Source: icLiverpool (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/liverpooldailypost/news/regionalnews/tm_headline=turner-prize-shortlist-revealed-in-liverpool%26method=full%26objectid=19063288%26site id=50061-name_page.html)

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Tuesday, 8 May 2007

Anti-war art on Turner shortlist

Artwork based on anti-war campaigner Brian Haw has made the shortlist for the 2007 Turner Prize.

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Mark Wallinger recreated Haw's Parliament Square protest camp for his State Britain exhibition.

Other shortlisted artists this year include photographer and film-maker Zarina Bhimji and sculptor and photographer Nathan Coley.

Mike Nelson, who was nominated in 2001, has also been selected for his varied installation work.

Wallinger was shortlisted in for the Turner Prize in 1995 and one of his sculptures, Ecce Homo, stood on the vacant plinth in Trafalgar Square in 1999.

Provoking debate

Bhimji has been shortlisted for her photographs of Uganda, from where she was exiled under Idi Amin.

Nelson will be judged on his Double coop displacement installation, which features a structure made of wood and chicken wire.

Coley specialises in cardboard models of religious buildings, painted in gaudy stripes similar to a circus big top.

He has been selected for works displayed on the Isle of Bute, in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and in Belgrade, Serbia.

The prize will be presented on 3 December at the Tate Gallery in Liverpool, ahead of the city becoming the European Capital of Culture in 2008.

Works by the four nominated artists will be exhibited in October at Tate Liverpool's Albert Dock gallery.

The £25,000 was won last year by the German painter Tomma Abts.

The prize is noted for causing debate over its winners' artistic merit. The 2005 winner was Simon Starling, who dismantled a shed, made it into a boat, then turned it back into a shed again.

Source: BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6634501.stm)

CULT Hollywood star Dennis Hopper will present this year’s Turner Prize. Read (http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2007/11/26/dennis-hopper-will-present-turner-prize-in-liverpool-100252-20162246/)

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Art history

The contemporary art world turns its spotlight on Liverpool tomorrow night.

Launching Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture 2008 are Monday night's Turner Prize awards, the first time outside London.

It is the first time in the Prize's history that the event has been held outside London. It will take place at the Tate Liverpool and the prize will be presented by the Hollywood actor and art-collector Dennis Hopper.

Turner Prize

See the nominees and their work here (http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/arts_entertainment/art/liverpools+cultural+facelift/1131847)

Cultural launchpad

The ceremony effectively launches Liverpool's year as European capital of culture.

Investment has been pouring in and the city centre has been rebuilt.

So how has the attempted regeneration changed the face of the city? Watch the report.

Turner Prize: live on Channel 4 News: Our arts correspondent Nicholas Glass will be at Tate Liverpool on Monday night when the winner of this year's Turner Prize will be announced live on Channel 4 News.

Source: Channel 4 News (http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/arts_entertainment/art/liverpools+cultural+facelift/1131847)

Not sure about the title of Mark Wallinger's work. Can anybody think of another name for a teddy bear? :rolleyes:

Not Turner – but it’s far more disturbing
Dec 3 2007
by Phil Key, Liverpool Daily Post

WHILE the art world prepares for the Turner Prize award tonight at the Tate Liverpool, Merseyside has already staged its own alternative event.

A number of galleries around the city have been showing exhibitions of what is cheekily titled The alTURNERtive Prize 07.

They have been put together by the Merseyside Stop the War Coalition and the exhibitions have a simple theme, “art against war and occupation”.

One of the major shows is at the View Two Gallery, in Mathew Street, where the owner, architect Ken Martin, confessed that he was going to stage the show in one of his smaller rooms.

“But when I saw the quality, I realised it required our largest space.”

He even considers the exhibition more important than the official Turner show at the Tate. “This is more serious art,” he said.

While the View Two show does have a serious message, there are artists who use some unexpected material – including Lego bricks.

The artist Lego Festo – not a real name but one selected to secure anonymity – uses Lego and Lego figures to create a piece titled Ghosts of Abu Ghraib.

The figures are all in little Lego cells undergoing torture with buckets on their heads, chained or beaten. The use of a toy building block as material adds an unsettling touch. Jamie Andrews also used a toy – toy soldiers in his case – to create 10,000 men, the result looking like a bush but actually made up of tiny (dead?) soldiers. It was based on the rhyme of the Grand Old Duke of York.

Rather grimmer is Peter Offord’s Mission Accomplished, basically a distorted skull with a headphone.

West Kirby artist Marko Muller uses burnt driftwood, rusty chains and bits of glass to create his assemblage titled Out of the Strong Came Forth Sweetness.

Leon Khan has some of the largest and strongest images, distorted photo-collages including Market Madness full of bodies and War Drive, more men with tanks and horses.

Jai Redman’s History 2003 uses more toy soldiers battling in an open book, apparently created from “lead and dust”. Another Wirral artist, Christine O’Reilly Wilson, has a tall striped abstract Fight for Freedom while Sharon Bentley’s Verboten Gedachtnis is a triptych slightly covered by net through which appear to be dead bodies.

It is a disturbing exhibition which demands attention. There are other shows in the series at The People’s Centre Gallery, Mount Pleasant; Pushka restaurant, Rodney Street; Domino Gallery, Upper Newington; and The Quarter Restaurant, Falkner Street.

Source: Liverpool Daily Post (http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-life-features/liverpool-arts/2007/12/03/not-turner-but-it-s-far-more-disturbing-64375-20194346/)

Mark Wallinger is the winner

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Didn't realise the Turner Pirze was at St Georges Hall.

I was going to take pics of the Christmas Lights but saw all the limos and cops so went to Church Street.

Didn't realise the Turner Pirze was at St Georges Hall.

I was going to take pics of the Christmas Lights but saw all the limos and cops so went to Church Street.

Busy night in Liverpool Max. That was the Royal Variety Performance at the Empire Theatre, the Turner Prize was at Tate Liverpool in the Albert Dock.

Ah hell, I forgot some of my tripod anyway.:eek:

St Georges Hall was open too with velvet ropes at the entrance.

Mark Wallinger won the Turner Prize last night for his his film 'Sleeper' which involved him dressing up as a bear for ten days in Berlin. The film was depicting the struggle of Brian Haw the lone protestor outside the Houses of Parliament. What do people think of the winner? Hould it have been one of the others?

The piece relating to Brian Haw was a different one that was shown in the London Tate. That's what he won the prize for rather than what was in the show. He might not want to have brought it up here because part of the point of it was that the Tate was within the area of London where protests were banned.

I liked Sleeper. It's not the kind of thing you'd watch from beginning to end but just dip into it for a few minutes at a time. The Tate don't do artists any favours when they hype it up and compare it to Michelangelo. It builds up the wrong expectations and that sends people away with their prejudices confirmed.

I thought Zarina Bhimji looked promising (there are two older and two emerging artists in the show and she's one of the young ones). Liverpool might not have been the best place for her to show though because we see a lot of the kind of work she does in the International Biennial.

I was generally disappointed that there wasn't more there though. A sense of 'Is that it?'