2009 Turner Prize

British prize for contemporary art August 2015 August 2015 The four nominees for the Tate gallery's 2009 Turner Prize were Enrico David, Roger Hiorns, Lucy Skaer and Richard Wright . The award went to Richard Wright on 7 December 2009 winning him the £25,000 prize ($41,000, 28,000 EUR).Turner Prize 09 - The Announcement http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/turner-prize-2009 Tate 21 July 2010Turner Prize: whale skull and pile of dust among artworks on display https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/turner-prize/6261663/Turner-Prize-whale-skull-and-pile-of-dust-among-artworks-on-display.html 21 July 2010 The Daily Telegraph 5 October 2009Relax News British artist Richard Wright wins Turner Prize https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/british-artist-richard-wright-wins-turner-prize-1836170.html https://web.archive.org/web/20121108080852/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/british-artist-richard-wright-wins-turner-prize-1836170.html dead 8 November 2012 21 July 2010 The Independent 8 December 2009 The Turner jury said in a statement that they "admired the profound originality and beauty of Wright's work." The other shortlisted nominees each won £5,000. The chairman of the jury was Tate Britain director, Stephen Deuchar. The judges were Jonathan Jones (art critic for The Guardian), Charles Esche (director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Doctor Andrea Schlieker (Curator Folkestone Triennial) and Mariella Frostrup (broadcaster).Turner Prize 09 - The Jury http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/turner-prize-2009 Tate 21 July 2010 Exhibition An exhibition of work by the nominees was shown at Tate Britain from 6 October 2009 to 3 January 2010.Turner Prize 09 - Tickets & Visiting Information http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/turner-prize-2009 Tate 21 July 2010 The Turner Prize is awarded for a show by the artist in the previous year. Barber Lynn Lynn Barber: How I suffered for art's sake Guardian Unlimited newspaper 2010-07-08 2006-10-01 https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2006/oct/01/art.turnerprize2006 When nominees are told of their nomination they then prepare exhibits for the Turner Prize exhibition, often at short notice. As such, the Turner Prize exhibition may not feature the works for which the artist was initially nominated by the judges. However the Turner Prize exhibition tends to be the basis on which public and press judge the artist's worthiness for nomination. Nominees There were four nominees for the prize (chosen from a long-list of 19 artists),Higgins Charlotte Painters return to Turner prize shortlist https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/apr/28/turner-prize-shortlist1 21 July 2010 The Guardian 28 April 2009 announced on Tuesday 28 April 2009:Staff and agencies Collages, wall paintings and a cavern of crystals on the Turner prize shortlist https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/apr/28/turner-prize-shortlist 21 July 2010 The Guardian 28 April 2009 Enrico David, nominated for his solo exhibition Dzzzzt By Mammy? at the Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel and Bulbous Marauder at the Seattle Arts Museum. Roger Hiorns, nominated for his 2008 exhibition Seizure; an abandoned flat left to bathe in liquid copper sulphate until all surfaces were covered in blue crystals.2009 Turner prize nominees http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/arts_entertainment/art/2009+turner+prize+nominees/3114302 Channel 4 21 July 2010 An alumnus of Goldsmiths College, London.Turner prize 2009: Meet the artists https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2009/apr/28/turner-prize-2009-meet-artists#/?picture=346567000&index=3 21 July 2010 The Guardian 28 April 2009 Lucy Skaer, nominated for her solo exhibition at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh and A Boat Used as a Vessel at the Kunsthalle, Basel. Born Cambridge, 1975. Lives and works in London and Glasgow. Richard Wright, nominated for work exhibited at the 55th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh and his exhibition at the Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh. Glasgow-based, born 1960. Works and press coverage Enrico David Absuction Cardigan or How Do You Love Dzzzzt By Mammy? A papier mache egg shaped man on rocking chair legs with a photo of the artist's face stuck on.,Turner prize 2009: the shortlisted artists go on show https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2009/oct/05/turner-prize-shortlist-artists 21 July 2010 The Guardian 5 October 2009 (External image) Bulbous Marauder An image of two harlequins wielding clubs. (External image) Bulbous Marauder 2 A face looks down as seen between the parted legs of someone in harlequin costume. (External image) Wayne Shire A stuffed dummy, collapsed on the ground. (External image). ? "A glimpse at a gay man's bottom".Campbell-Johnston Rachel Turner Prize: thought provoking, not shocking http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article6861874.ece https://web.archive.org/web/20110615120457/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article6861874.ece dead 15 June 2011 21 July 2010 The Times 6 October 2009 ? "the face of Kenneth Williams thrown into a boot". The artist says: "I see the potential of the creative process as a representation of a new language to be simultaneously constructed and discovered, on the basis of pre-existing aesthetic and cultural templates."Benedictus Leo Enrico David: Turner prize profile https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/dec/04/enrico-david-turner-prize-profile 21 July 2010 The Guardian 7 December 2009 The critics said: "[his work] has never touched, moved or done more than mildly irritate me."Searle Adrian Turner prize shortlist goes back to the drawing board https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/apr/28/turner-prize-shortlist-drawing 21 July 2010 The Guardian 28 April 2009 - Adrian Searle, The Guardian "a brilliant painter, strange and disturbing, definitely not safe or conventional, one of the most exciting, troubling artists of our time." - Jonathan Jones, The Guardian "his work is a bit silly. It’s a sort of punch-and-judy psychodrama, a romp in a perverse shop window."Lubbock Tom This year's Turner Prize foursome share common ground https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/tom-lubbock-this-years-turner-prize-foursome-share-common-ground-1798105.html 21 July 2010 The Independent 5 October 2009 - Tom Lubbock - The Independent "the only one of this year's contestants whose work brought back that toe-tapping annoyance of a decade ago."Darwent Charles Turner Prize 2009, Tate Britain, London https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/reviews/turner-prize-2009-tate-britain-london-1800770.html 21 July 2010 The Independent 11 October 2009 4 January 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100104222315/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/reviews/turner-prize-2009-tate-britain-london-1800770.html dead - Charles Darwent, The Independent "a pantomime of impotent half-jokes."Cumming Laura Turner prize 2009 https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/oct/11/turner-prize-2009-art-cumming 21 July 2010 The Guardian 11 October 2009 - Laura Cumming, The Observer. Roger Hiorns Seizure A flat was filled with copper sulphate which, once it had evaporated, left all surfaces covered in blue crystal.(External image) (External image). ? Cubes of processed cows' brains in metal racks.Higgins Charlotte Cow brains and a whale skull: Turner prize cooks up an unholy stew https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/oct/05/turner-prize-exhibition-tate 21 July 2010 The Guardian 5 October 2009 ? a scattered pile of dust made from disintegrating a jet engine.(External image https://web.archive.org/web/20160304002537/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/tom-lubbock-this-years-turner-prize-foursome-share-common-ground-1798105.html?action=Popup&ino=5 4 March 2016 ). IBM (15 x 10) a white tubular shape with a black contraption at one end. (External image). Discipline Steel thistles covered in copper sulphate crystals leaning against a wall.(External image) Vauxhall Flames coming from a floor drain.(External image) The artist says: "I prefer to distance myself from ideas of posterity, of the longevity of a piece of art. None of that seems healthy. I don't like explaining and being explicit."Benedictus Leo Roger Hiorns: Turner prize profile https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/dec/07/roger-hiorns-turner-prize-profile 21 July 2010 The Guardian 7 December 2009 The critics said: "Hiorns's art has nowhere much to go. It has already crystallised. I like Hiorns, but have always found him extremely repetitive." - Adrian Searle, The Guardian "does surprising things with surprising materials [...] [the powdered jet engine] is beautiful and spectacular." "His main entry in the Turner show, an untitled floor piece, pulls off another material miracle. Made in part of powdered cow brains, the work is both immensely clever and an island of the Romantic imagination – brainy in every way possible." - Charles Darwent, The Independent. Lucy Skaer ? "a pointed stone loop in front of some kind of book and a fairly ordinary wooden chair".Benedictus Leo Lucy Skaer: Turner prize profile https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/dec/04/lucy-skaer-turner-prize-profile 21 July 2010 The Guardian 7 December 2009 (External image) ? "two paintings that seem to have been created by pressing them between paper". (External image) ? a curved sheet of paper half-covered in black ink spirals to give the appearance of a whale skeleton hidden behind a false wall in the corner. Black Alphabet "26 copies of Brâncuși's sculpture Bird in Space made from impacted coal dust". (External image), (External image). Leviathan Edge A sperm whale skull partially hidden behind screens. (External image 1, External image 2). The Siege[?] Large images of hands, one on the floor the other on a table. (External image) The Siege[?] A three panel image of a black mass. (image) Solid Ground - Liquid to Solid in 85 years An arrangement of objects on the ground. (External image). ? An image produced by inking a chair and pressing it to paper. The artist says: "I'm interested in a state of between-ness, and that state you find if one thing transforms to another." The critics said: "her work can be delicate, moving and strange, but everything she does needs an awful lot of mental unpacking." - Adrian Searle, The Guardian "her contribution may feel decidedly bitty, but as you puzzle and ponder and try to put it together you find yourself focusing on the act of looking itself." - Rachel Campbell-Johnston - The Times "what’s it about? Do I care enough to do the homework? There’s always some background thinking, tenuously connected to a curious exhibit [...] I feel sure she’s got an interesting mind. I’m not sure it’s the mind of an artist." - Tom Lubbock, The Independent "Skaer was one of the highlights of this art year for me, as she is of the 2009 Turner Prize show." - Charles Darwent, The Independent. "Much of what she makes is about slowing the eye and thus the mind. And almost everything here holds you with an enigmatic clarity and impact I haven't seen in her work before. But against this is her speeding brain, polymorphous, doodling around, sometimes overshooting the mark." - Laura Cumming, The Observer. Richard Wright Untitled A gold leaf fresco that was painted over once the exhibition finished. (External image), (External image) No Title A painting as if looking through an arched window towards other arched windows.(External image) Not Titled A painting of a red geometric shape, tapering towards the floor. (External image) No Title Shelving, as if set in a door frame. (External image). Untitled A bean-shaped design pattern. (External image). The critics said: "ephemeral but often rather beautiful [...] sometimes, getting up close, you can drown in their fixated patterning." Searle, The Guardian "Wright's painting speaks of the exaltation of the human spirit, of our finer instincts and loftier ambitions, of the ability of the soul to soar and sing. It heralds nothing less than the return of beauty to modern art."Sooke Alistair Turner Prize: Art is beautiful again https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/turner-prize/6767001/Turner-Prize-Art-is-beautiful-again.html 21 July 2010 The Daily Telegraph 9 December 2009 "feels institutional rather than sweetly and typically subversive." Critics' reception of exhibition as a whole "seductive, intriguing, involving work that appeals to the emotions and the senses" - Charlotte Higgins - The Guardian "if you enjoy huffing and puffing about the deplorable state of contemporary art, this year’s Turner Prize will probably prove disappointing [...] This is a subtle show which marks an optimistic upturn for the Turner." - Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times "you might find hard to tell where one part of the exhibition stopped and the next started. There’s plenty of common ground." - Tom Lubbock, The Independent "compared with last year's dismal and bloodless show, 2009 aims considerably higher." - Laura Cumming, The Observer. External links Jonathan Jones writes about being a judge for the prize Artist profiles Enrico David Roger Hiorns Lucy Skaer Group profile Multimedia Note: some content may require Adobe Flash Adrian Searle audio giving outline of nominees - The Guardian. Adrian Searle video showing many works of the exhibition with input from the artists - The Guardian Another Adrian Searle video showing works and with Searle speaking to camera giving his opinion of the artists and their work - The Guardian Exhibition slideshow - The Guardian. Slideshow - The Guardian Video coverage - The Daily Telegraph Video coverage of prize-giving and exhibition, includes Wright talking about his work and comment from Deuchar and Alan Yentob. - The Guardian =91t_fndFoH4 Footage of David's exhibition 'How Do You Love Dzzzzt By Mammy?' in Basel for which he was nominated KgDN47_aviU Tate video of Hiorns' work 'Seizure' References 2009 Turner Prize Category:2009 art awards Category:2009 awards in the United Kingdom