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It's a weird affair this
'art world'. Go along to a gallery showing contemporary art at any
point during the year and you'll see a bunch of twentysomething art
students, but when the Turner prize comes along you have newspaper
editors, the man from William Hill, that nice Joan Bakewell ... saying
what they're supposed to say ... sorry, expressing their heartfelt
opinion. And then the camera moves away for another year.
It's not that often we hear from the people who
actually go to exhibitions. I think thats because what they would
probably say would reveal contemporary art to be quite a specialised
subject, rather than a matter of truly 'public' importance like
parliamentary politics, Eastenders or who Jordan has been seen with
in the celeb circuit.
This year the Turner Prize 2001 features the work
by the four shortlisted artists and the winner of the £20,000 prize
will be announced at Tate Britain on 9 December 2020 during a live
broadcast by Channel 4.
This year's short-listed artists are: Richard
Billingham for his solo exhibition at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham,
and for his contributions to The Sleep of Reason at the Norwich
Gallery and to Body Beautiful at Galerie Jennifer Flay, Nice, in
which he showed the extension of his work into video and a poignant
return to places of childhood memory in his recent photographs.
Martin Creed for Martin Creed Works, organised
by Southampton City Art Gallery and shown at Leeds City Art Gallery,
Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, and Camden Arts Centre, London and
Art Now: Martin Creed, Tate Britain, London, in which showed his
characteristic mixture of seriousness and humour.
Isaac Julien for his exhibitions at Cornerhouse,
Manchester, the South London Gallery and Victoria Miro Gallery,
London in collaboration with Film and Video Umbrella, of his films,
which combine theoretical sophistication with lush sensuality, intelligence,
wit and emotional complexity.
Mike Nelson for his contribution to the British
Art Show, National Touring Exhibitions, which exemplified the haunting
resonance of his installation works, in which he creates places
that suggest a sense of threat, danger, or life on the edge.
The members of the Turner Prize 2001 Jury are:
Patricia Bickers, Editor, Art Monthly; Stuart Evans, representative
of the Patrons of New Art; Robert Storr, Senior Curator, Painting
and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Jonathan Watkins,
Director, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Nicholas Serota, Director of
Tate and Chairman of the Jury.
see images
of the work of the four short-listed artists
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