Turner Prize 2011
dal 20/10/2011 al 7/1/2012
Segnalato da
Karla Black
Martin Boyce
Hilary Lloyd
George Shaw
Penelope Curtis
Katrina Brown
Vasif Kortun,
Nadia Schneider
Godfrey Worsdale
20/10/2011
Turner Prize 2011
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
Karla Black who has an innovative approach to sculpture and makes substantial works made in otherwise temporary spaces and materials. Martin Boyce who holds the viewer with atmospheric sculptural installations, combining references to design history and text, marked by a subtle attention to detail. Hilary Lloyd who combines still and moving images, sound and the three dimensional forms of AV playback equipment to portray the urban environment. George Shaw whose paintings, with their deeply personal juxtaposition of subject matter and material, lie intriguingly on the edge of tradition.
Karla Black, Martin Boyce, Hilary Lloyd and George Shaw
Arguably the world's most recognised and prestigious award for contemporary art, the Turner Prize presents the very best of current British art. This is your chance to discover what is new in British art now. The Prize, established in 1984, is awarded to a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the twelve months preceding 4 April 2011. For the first time ever, the exhibition will this year be held outside of a Tate venue.
The members of the Turner Prize 2011 jury are:
Chair: Penelope Curtis, Director Tate Britain
Katrina Brown, Director, The Common Guild, Glasgow
Vasif Kortun, Platform Garanti, Istanbul
Nadia Schneider, Freelance Curator
Godfrey Worsdale, Director, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Karla Black was born in Alexandria, Scotland in 1972. She studied at the Glasgow School of Art where she received a BA in 1999, an MPhil in 2000 and an MA in 2004.
Karla Black brings together disparate and often unorthodox materials spreading, crumpling and layering them to make expansive floor-based works and suspended sculptures. Using both traditional art-making materials and those drawn from the everyday environment, she has incorporated powder-paint, plaster, crushed chalk, Vaseline, lipstick, topsoil, sugar paper, balsa wood, eye shadow, nail varnish and moisturiser. Her materials are rich in association but are chosen as much viscerally as they are psychologically. She selects things she "cannot help but use", starting each work through some unconscious desire.
Karla Black (38) lives and works in Glasgow.
Martin Boyce was born in Hamilton, Scotland in 1967. He was awarded a BA in 1990 and an MA in 1997, both from Glasgow School of Art.
Martin Boyce engages with the historical legacy of Modernist forms and ideals to create deeply atmospheric installations drawing upon text and elements of design. His investigations will often re-stage the outside within the gallery space, evoking the urban landscape through precisely explored sculptural details. Steeped in an understanding of the concepts of Modernist design, his work draws upon its visual language with a complex repertoire of forms. Noted for his engagement with how these objects are produced, Boyce is interested in how their original political or aesthetic ethos changes over time. His meticulous sculptures bear out his imaginings for the alternative lives these objects might lead if created at a different moment.
Martin Boyce (43) lives and works in Glasgow.
Hilary Lloyd was born in Halifax 1964 and graduated from Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic in 1987.
Hilary Lloyd makes work which engages in various ways with the moving image, encompassing video projections, films on monitors, and slide projections. She foregrounds technical equipment as a sculptural medium, prominently displaying the AV equipment on which her work is installed.
Hilary Lloyd (46) lives and works in London.
George Shaw was born in Coventry in 1966. He gained a BA from Sheffield Polytechnic in 1992 and an MA from the Royal College of Art, London, in 1998.
George Shaw paints the landscape of his adolescent life. His scenes are all taken from within a half-mile radius of his childhood home on the Tile Hill estate, Coventry. Typical of post-war British social housing, the estate could belong to any city or have originated at any point between the early 1950s and the late 1970s, promoting the timeless, placeless quality of Shaw’s work. His paintings are always devoid of the human figure, populated instead by seemingly arbitrary details of suburban infrastructure that he has recorded since the mid-1990s.
George Shaw (44) lives and works in North Devon.
On Saturdays during November, each of the Turner Prize nominated artists will give a talk about their work
For further information for The Turner Prize 2011 at Baltic, please contact:
Ann Cooper / Nikki Johnson T: 0191 440 4915, E: annc@balticmill.com / nikkij@balticmill.com
To contact Tate Press Office please contact:
Helen Beeckmans / Daisy Mallabar, Tate Press Office T: 020 7887 4906/4942, E-mail pressoffice@tate.org.uk - www.tate.org.uk/turnerprize
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead Quays, South Shore Road, Gateshead, NE8 3BA, UK
Opening times: Open Daily 10.00–18.00 except Tuesdays 10.30–18.00
Admission free