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Announced on 3rd December, the winner of the 2024 Turner Prize is Jasleen Kaur, whose work appeared on the cover of Artmag’s 10th May issue. Jasleen and Pio Abad are two of this year\u2019s nominees who trained at Glasgow School of Art. The Turner Prize exhibition is showing at Tate Britain in London until 16th February next year, and the 2025 Turner Prize nominees will be displayed at Bradford\u2019s Cartwright Hall Art Gallery from next September, as part of its UK City of Culture programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE fortieth Turner Prize exhibition was unveiled in late September, back at its home in Tate Britain for the first time in six years. However, it has divided critics. Depending on who you read, it\u2019s a death knell for a prize which has been petering out ever since its glory days in the 1990s, or an interesting (if not particularly exciting) snapshot of British contemporary art now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The biggest and best-known art prize in the UK (the winner gets \u00a325,000, the other nominated artists \u00a310,000 each) has thrived on controversy, but this year there is very little. Media attention and visitor numbers are lower than they were 20 years ago, and the prize has had some trouble attracting high profile sponsors. One writer visiting this year\u2019s show reflected that the prize \u201cseems to have run out of originality and fire\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1984, the prize was set up \u201cto recognise the greatest contribution to British art in the previous 12 months\u201d. The earliest winners tended to be well-established artists, but things changed in 1991 when Channel 4 came on board as media sponsor, the prize money doubled and the age limit of 50 was introduced (it was removed in 2017). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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