Glasgow sculptor Martin Boyce has won this year's Turner prize, the third year in a row that the prize has been won by a Glasgow artist.
Sculptor Martin Boyce, whose works include artificial trees and
a leaning litter bin, has won the Turner
Prize. The win continues a strong Glasgow connection with
Martin Boyce following where Susan Philipsz and Richard Wright have
led over the last two years.
Glasgow-based Boyce accepted the modern art award worth £25,000
at the Baltic gallery in Gateshead - the first time the ceremony
has been held outside a Tate venue.
The Glasgow School of Art is a common
theme for an increasing number of Turner Prize winners. Graduates
from GSA include Douglas Gordon who took the prize in 1996 and
Simon Starling in 2005, as well as Richard Wright in 2009 and this
year's winner, Martin Boyce, the latest in this series of
Glaswegian artists who have been recognised for their creativity
through this award. Find out more about the
success of Glasgow School of Art.
Boyce is known for re-imagining items from places like parks and
public spaces and using them in atmospheric, modernist-inspired
installations.
The prestigious and frequently controversial prize is awarded to
a British artist under 50 who is judged to have put on the best
exhibition of the last 12 months.
At the exhibition of the nominees' works at the Baltic, Boyce
has turned three large white gallery pillars into square trees,
topped by canopies of uniform white leaves.
Source: BBC -
Turner Prize won by Martin Boyce