This year’s Turner Prize exhibition opens to the public today, marking the 30th anniversary of the prize that in 1984 was won by the painter Malcolm Morley.
There are no painters featured in the 2014 show, which returns to Tate Britain after visiting Northern Ireland for the first time last year as part of Derry’s UK City of Culture celebrations.
Three of the four shortlisted artists present film work, including Stockholm-based performance artist Tris Vonna-Michell, who is showing his first film piece, Finding Chopin: Dans L’Essex, which is soundtracked by one of his trademark, fast-paced, spoken-word performance pieces.
Cardiff-born Berlin-based filmmaker James Richards shows three films, including his black and white video installation Rosebud, which explores censorship and sensuality.
The Dublin-born Glasgow-based artist Duncan Campbell is showing his 54-minute film, It For Others, which was originally exhibited at the Scottish Pavilion during last year’s Venice Biennale. The work includes excerpts from a 1953 film by Chris Marker and Alain Resnais on colonialism and African art, and a dance piece by Michael Clark.
Fellow Glasgow-based artist Ciara Phillips, originally from Canada, is the only artist not working in film. Her room at Tate Britain is lined with over 400 hand-printed works on paper.
The judges of this year’s Turner Prize are: Stefan Kalmár, executive director and curator, Artists Space, New York; Helen Legg, director, Spike Island, Bristol; Sarah McCrory, director, Glasgow International; and Dirk Snauwaert, artistic director, Wiels, Brussels. The jury is chaired by Penelope Curtis, director of Tate Britain.
The winner of the 2014 prize, who will receive £25,000, will be announced on 1 December.
The Turner Prize 2014 show continues at Tate Britain until 4 January 2015. www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain/turner-prize
