Goshka Mackuga, Deutsche Volk – Deutsche Arbeit. Photo © Tara Booth / Culture24 Tara Booth takes an objective look at this year’s Turner Prize – at Tate Britain until January 18 2009. The work by this year’s shortlisted artists in the running for the 2008 Turner Prize has gone on display at London’s Tate Britain [...]
‘It’s a good day for bears’
Mark Wallinger, who won the Turner prize on Monday, talks to Charlotte Higgins about making art out of war, growing up in Chigwell – and the wrapping paper he designed for the Guardian Wednesday December 5, 2007 The Guardian Not inappropriately, given the work that he showed in the Turner prize shortlist exhibition, Mark Wallinger [...]
Mark Wallinger wins Turner Prize
Mark Wallinger has been named the winner of the Turner Prize for his replica of the one-man anti-war protest in Parliament Square, State Britain. Actor and director Dennis Hopper presented the £25,000 award at a ceremony at the Tate Liverpool gallery. “I am indebted to all those people who contributed to the making of State [...]
Zarina Bhimji
Born in 1963 in Mbarara, Uganda, Zarina Bhimji now lives and works in London and Berlin. Immediately after receiving a B.A. in Fine Arts from the University of London in 1987, she began exhibiting her work in group exhibitions. Following post-graduate work she became an Artist in Residence at Darwin College in Cambridge. In 1996, [...]
Mark Wallinger
English painter, sculptor and video artist. He studied in London at the Chelsea School of Art (1978–81) and Goldsmiths’ College (1983–5). From the mid-1980s his work has addressed the traditions and values of British society, its class system and organized religion. The range of approaches he has adopted reflects his wish to have a broad [...]
