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Tate Britain: the venue for the Turner Prize except in 2007, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017 The Turner Prize is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist, organised by the Tate Gallery. Named after the painter J. M. W. Turner, it was first presented in 1984, and is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious, but controversial, art awards. Initially, the prize was awarded to the ...
Damien Hirst was awarded the 1995 Turner Prize, which included his notorious sculpture Mother and Child, Divided. Other nominees included Lebanese-born installation/video artist Mona Hatoum , abstract painter Callum Innes and multi-media artist Mark Wallinger .
Damien Steven Hirst (/ h ɜːr s t /; né Brennan; born 7 June 1965) is an English artist and art collector. [1] ... In 1995, Hirst won the Turner Prize.
Archibald Prize – William Robinson, Self-portrait with stunned mullet; John Moores Painting Prize - David Leapman for "Double-Tongued Knowability [7] Schock Prize in Visual Arts – Claes Oldenburg; Turner Prize – Damien Hirst (Mona Hatoum, Callum Innes, and Mark Wallinger were shortlisted). The Venice Biennial
Jasleen Kaur wins 2024 Turner Prize for poignant show evoking the power of community. Greg Evans. ... (1991), artist Damien Hirst (1995), and filmmaker Sir Steve McQueen (1999).
The work was funded by the businessman Charles Saatchi, who in 1991 had offered to pay for whatever artwork Hirst wanted to create. The shark cost Hirst £6,000 [4] and the total cost of the work was £50,000. [5] Hirst asked Doris Lockhart for a loan to cover the cost of shipping the shark from Australia, but she gave him the required amount.
The work was created during a relationship she had in the mid-1990s with Carl Freedman, who had been an early friend of, and collaborator with, Damien Hirst, and who had co-curated seminal Britart shows, such as Modern Medicine and Gambler. In 1995, Freedman curated the show Minky Manky at the South London Gallery, where
This was amplified by the Turner Prize whose more extreme nominees (most notably Hirst and Emin) caused a controversy annually. Stuckists' "Death of Conceptual Art" coffin demonstration, 2002 The Stuckist group of artists, founded in 1999, proclaimed themselves "pro-contemporary figurative painting with ideas and anti-conceptual art, mainly ...