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Turner Prize exhibition 2022
One of the best-known prizes for visual art is back as The Turner Prize returns to Tate Liverpool.
The Turner Prize 2022 exhibition is now open with the winner being announced at St George’s Hall on 7 December 2022.
The prize is awarded to a British artist for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the preceding year as determined by a jury. Spread across seven rooms on the gallery’s top floor are immersive inquiries into race, gender and maternalism from the prize’s four nominees: Heather Phillipson, Ingrid Pollard, Veronica Ryan and Sin Wai Kin.
The artists in the 2022 shortlist may seemingly take very different in their approach to art, however area joined by their boundaries pushing vision.
Heather Phillipson is an artist who encourages curiosity and cultivates strangeness – her multimedia work is constantly shifting in form and focus, with elusive subject matter that sometimes materialises in the form of bold, public-space sculpture. Her most famous work: THE END was a giant sculpture of whipped cream with a cherry and a drone sitting on top, was shown in Trafalgar Square. Phillipson is nominated for her solo exhibition RUPTURE NO 1: blowtorching the bitten peach – a large, colourful, audio-visual immersive space that the artist describes as “happening in a parallel time-zone.”
Ingrid Pollard is predominantly considered a photographer however also works with sculpture, sound and movement. She explores themes of Britishness, race, landscape, sexuality, history and deep time and challenges assumptions about the experience of alienation, as illustrated by her well-known work Pastoral Interlude from 1987. Pollard is nominated for her solo exhibition Carbon Slowly Turning at MK Gallery, Milton Keynes. For the show, she presents Seventeen of Sixty Eight (2018), a display based on her extensive research into racist depictions of ‘the African’ in our surroundings, from pub signs and objects, to literature and the larger landscape. As well as other photo series, Pollard also presents Bow Down and Very Low – 123 (2021), a set of kinetic sculptures.
Veronica Ryan is nominated for her solo exhibition Along a Spectrum at Spike Island, Bristol and her Hackney Windrush Art Commission in London. Ryan uses her signature style and motifs of fruits, vegetables and seeds, as well as containers and compartments in her sculpture and installations which range from minimalist and smaller in scale, to larger public work.
Sin Wai Kin is a London-based, non-binary, mixed race multimedia artist who expertly leaps between categories and bends existing narratives in order to describe the experience of identification, desire and consciousness. Sin’s video works are filled with mesmerising characters whose journeys lead them to dissolving binaries. The artist was nominated for their involvement in the British Art Show 9 and their solo presentation at Blindspot Gallery. For the display at the Tate, they present three films, including It’s Always You (2021), where the artist masterfully takes on the roles of four individual members of a boyband.
The Turner Prize was established in 1984 and is awarded yearly to a British artist for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work. The Turner Prize award is £55,000, with £25,000 going to the winner and £10,000 each to the other shortlisted artists.
The Turner Prize 2022 jury members are Irene Aristizábal, Head of Curatorial and Public Practice, BALTIC; Christine Eyene, Research Fellow, School of Arts and Media, UCLan; Robert Leckie, Director, Spike Island; and Anthony Spira, Director, MK Gallery.
