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4 shortlisted artists for Turner Prize 2015

United Kingdom Architecture News - May 14, 2015 - 16:24 4141 views

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Tramway,25 Albert Drive Glasgow G41 2PE;image via Tate

The Turner Prize is awarded to a British artist under 50 for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the preceding year.Every other year, the prize leaves Tate Britain and is presented at a venue outside London. For 2015, that venue will be Tramway in Glasgow, an international art-space renowned for commissioning, producing and presenting contemporary arts projects.

Shortlist

The shortlisted artists as follows:

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Assemble Group Photo 2014 © Assemble

1.Assemble have been nominated for projects including the ongoing collaboration with local residents and others in the Granby Four Streets, Liverpool.Assemble are a London-based collective who work across the fields of art, design and architecture to create projects in tandem with the communities who use and inhabit them. Their architectural spaces and environments promote direct action and embrace a DIY sensibility.

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Bonnie Camplin,The Military Industrial Complex installation view,South London Gallery © the Artist Cabinet London and South London Gallery.

2.Bonnie Camplin has been nominated for The Military Industrial Complex, South London Gallery.Bonnie Camplin’s practice, which she broadly describes as ‘the Invented Life,’ is characterised by the critique of existing power-structures, and spans the disciplines of drawing, film, performance, music and writing.The Military Industrial Complex took the form of a study room exploring what ‘consensus reality’ is and how it is formed, drawing from physics to philosophy, psychology, witchcraft, quantum theory and warfare.

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Janice Kerbel;DOUG 2014-Performed on 1 May 2015 in the Jeffrey Room, The Mitchell Theatre, Glasgow
Commissioned by The Common Guild, Glasgow:Photographer Alan Dimmick © greengrassi, London and Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver

3.Janice Kerbel has been nominated for her operatic work DOUG, commissioned by The Common Guild at Mitchell Library, Glasgow.Kerbel borrows from conventional modes of narrative in order to create elaborate imagined forms. Her precisely crafted works often take the form of audio recordings, performance and printed matter. DOUG is a performative work which takes the form of nine songs for six voices.

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Nicole Wermers,Infrastruktur 2015:Installation view © Herald St, London

4.Nicole Wermers is nominated for her exhibition Infrastruckur, Herald Street, London.Wermers creates sculptures, collages and installations which explore the appropriation of art and design within consumer culture.Her installation Infrastruktur adopted the glossy aesthetics and materials of modernist design and high fashion, alluding to themes of lifestyle, class, consumption and control.

The Turner Prize award is £40,000, with £25,000 going to the winner and £5,000 each for the other shortlisted artists.

The winner of the prize will be announced on 7 December 2015.

Given how many artists from Glasgow have made up the Turner Prize shortlists over recent years, it is great to have the Prize on show in Tramway, which feels like a natural home for the Prize this year.

Dr Penelope Curtis, Director, Tate Britain

Over the last 20 years, Glasgow and Scotland has gained national and international recognition as a centre of excellence in, and for, the visual arts and for many years artists who are from Scotland or who have trained at the Glasgow School of Art – one of the world’s leading art schools – have been nominated for, or won, the award.

Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate

In addition to the exhibition, there will be an extensive programme of workshops, talks, tours and activities for people of all ages to get involved and be inspired by the creative work on show.

The members of the 2015 Turner Prize Jury are:

-Mr Alistair Hudson, Director, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

-Jan Verwoert, Critic and Curator

-Ms Joanna Mytkowska, Director, Warsaw Museum of Modern Art

-Ms Kyla McDonald, Artistic Director, Glasgow Sculpture Studios

The jury is chaired by Dr Penelope Curtis, Director of Tate Britain.

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4 shortlisted artists for Turner Prize 2015

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