The artists said that, at a time when the world is divided, they wanted 'to make a collective statement in the name of commonality, multiplicity and solidarity - in art as in society.'
All four of the artists chosen as finalists won this year's award after they wrote to the jury and asked to be treated as a collective, prize organisers said Tuesday during a ceremony at the Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate, southeast England.Getty Images Europe
Artists Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani said that, at a time when the world is divided, they wanted "to make a collective statement in the name of commonality, multiplicity and solidarity - in art as in society.
Usually the Turner Prize winner receives £25,000 and the runners-up £5,000 . This year the four artists can divide the £40,000 prize pot however they wish. Named for 19th-century landscape painter J.M.W. Turner, the award was founded in 1984 and helped make stars of potter Grayson Perry, shark pickler Damien Hirst andBut it has also been criticised for rewarding impenetrable conceptual work and often sparks debate about the value of modern art.The surprise Turner result follows a contentious decision by jurors of this year's Booker Prize for fiction to split the award between two writers, Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo.
Farquharson said the Turner Prize had "broken the mold" before, with recent winners and nominees including architects and human-rights researchers."I don't think it would have had that long history had it not evolved, had it not surprised us," he said.
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