LONDON (AP) — An artist whose work exploring her Scottish Sikh id features a classic Ford automobile draped in a crocheted doily gained the U.Okay.’s prestigious Turner Prize on Tuesday.
Jasleen Kaur was awarded the 25,000-pound ($32,000) prize by actor James Norton throughout a ceremony on the Tate Britain gallery in London, the place works by the 4 finalists are on show till February.
A jury led by Tate Britain director Alex Farquhar praised the best way 38-year-old Kaur “weaves together the personal, political and spiritual” by way of “unexpected and playful combinations of material.”
Her profitable exhibition mixes sculpture, print, on a regular basis gadgets – together with household photographs, a Ford Escort automobile and the favored Scottish soda Irn Bru — and immersive music to replicate on her upbringing in Glasgow’s Sikh group.
Three different finalists – Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson and Delaine Le Bas – obtained 10,000 kilos ($12,670) every.
Named for Nineteenth-century panorama painter J.M.W. Turner and based in 1984 to reward younger artists, the prize helped make stars of shark-pickling artist Damien Hirst, potter Grayson Perry, sculptor Anish Kapoor and filmmaker Steve McQueen.
But it surely has additionally been criticized for rewarding impenetrable conceptual work and infrequently sparks debate concerning the worth of recent artwork, with winners equivalent to Hirst’s “Mom and Baby Divided,” which consists of two cows, bisected and preserved in formaldehyde, and Martin Creed’s “Lights On and Off” — a room with a lightweight blinking on and off – drawing scorn from sections of the media.
In 2019, all 4 finalists had been declared winners after they refused to compete towards each other, “to make a collective statement in the name of commonality, multiplicity and solidarity.”
In 2021, all 5 finalists had been collectives moderately than particular person artists.
The award was initially open to artists underneath 50 however now has no higher age restrict.
