Winner of Turner Prize announced

London-based French artist Laure Prouvost has been awarded this year's Turner Prize for her video installation Wantee, which weaves together art history and fiction in video form. She was the unexpected winner beating out strong competition, including the hot favourite Tino Sehgal.

Image: Laure Prouvostt

Turner Prize shortlist announced

David Shrigley, Tino Sehgal, Laure Prouvost and Lynnette Yiadom-Boakye are the contenders for this year's Turner Prize. Read more...
Image: David Shrigley's I'm Dead, 2010

Turner Prize winner announced

Video artist Elizabeth Price is has been awarded the Turner Prize 2012. Read more...

Image: Elizabeth Price, winner of the Turner Prize

2012 Turner Prize shortlist announced

Artists Spartacus Chetwynd, Luke Fowler, Paul Noble and Elizabeth Price have been shortlisted for this year's Turner Prize.The artists will now prepare work for the Turner Prize exhibition which opens at the Tate Britain in London on 2 October and the winner of the £25,000 prize will be announced on 3 December. Read more...
Image: a photograph from Spartacus Chetwynd's perfomance Odd Man Out, 2011

Tate announces 2011 Turner Prize nominees

The Tate has announced the nominees for the 2011 Turner Prize. Karla Black, Martin Boyce, Hilary Lloyd and George Shaw have been shortlisted for the award, which laureates a British artist under 50 "for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the twelve months preceding." The winner will be announced on 5 December 2011.

Image: Hilary Lloyd's Crane (2010)

Turner Prize winner announced

Susan Philipsz, whose melancholy song loops were first exhibited in secret walkways in Glasgow, has won the the 2010 Turner Prize. Philipsz uses her own voice to create sound installations that play on and extend "the poetics of specific, often out of the way spaces". You can follow live comment and chat surrounding this year's prize at the Channel 4 News live blog.

Winner of the 2010 Turner Prize announced tomorrow

The winner of the 2010 Turner Prize will be announced tomorrow. Susan Philipsz is the odds-on favourite this year for her sound installations.

Image: the site of a sound installation in Scotland by Susan Philipsz