Turner Prize Winners
The Turner prize is a contemporary art award which is awarded by a panel of art industry judges to the best British artist of the year who is aged under 50. The prize of £25,000 is awarded at a ceremony at Tate Britain where an exhibition of the short-listed artists is on display several months before the prize is announced.
The following table lists the past winners of the Turner Prize since it's inception in 1984. Each winning artist is listed along with a description of the usual medium they work with and also a named example of their work.
The 2006 Turner prize winner was announced on the 4th of December. The shortlisted artists this year were:
- Tomma Abts
- Phil Collins
- Mark Titchner
- Rebecca Warren
| Year | Turner Prize Winning Artist |
Art Medium Used | Title of works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Tomma Abts | Paint 48x38cm canvas | Ebe, Lübbe Epko, Ert |
| 2005 | Simon Starling | Installations | Shedboatshed Tabernas Desert Run |
| 2004 | Jeremy Deller | Video, Installations | Texas Memory Bucket The History of the World 1997-2004 |
| 2003 | Grayson Perry | Ceramics | Golden Ghosts I was an Angry Working Class Man |
| 2002 | Keith Tyson | Installation, mixed media | A Tiny Bubble of Complexity Two discreet molecules of simultaneity |
| 2001 | Martin Creed | Installation | Work No. 227: Lights Going On and Off |
| 2000 | Wolfgang Tillmans | Installations, photography | Concorde Blushes |
| 1999 | Steve McQueen | Video | Deadpan Triptych Drumroll Prey |
| 1998 | Chris Ofili | various paint, elephant dung | No Woman, No Cry The Virgin Mary |
| 1997 | Gillian Wearing | Video, photographs | 10-16 Sixty Minute Silence |
| 1996 | Douglas Gordan | Video | Confessions of a Justified Sinner |
| 1995 | Damien Hirst | Installations, variety of materials including formaldehyde and cows | Mother and Child Divided |
| 1994 | Antony Gormley | Sculpture, Iron, terracotta | Testing a World View Field for the British Isles |
| 1993 | Rachel Whiteread | Installations, casts of commonplace objects | House |
| 1992 | Grenville Davey | Sculpture, Steel | HAL |
| 1991 | Anish Kapoor | Sculpture | Many Untitled pieces |
| 1990 | No Prize - Cancelled due to bankruptcy of sponsor; Drexel Burnham Lambert | ||
| 1989 | Richard Long | Installations, variety of materials including clay | White Water Line |
| 1988 | Tony Cragg | Sculpture, mixed media, including building materials | George and the Dragon On the Savannah |
| 1987 | Richard Deacon | Sculpture, variety of materials including laminated wood | To My Face No.1 |
| 1986 | Gilbert & George | Photo-piece | Coming |
| 1985 | Howard Hodgkin | Oil on wood | A Small Thing But My Own |
| 1984 | Malcolm Morley | Oil painting | Farewell to Crete |