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Artist Jesse Darling is the most recent recipient of the Turner Prize, the UK’s high award for artists that grants £25,000 ($31,500) yearly. The announcement was made on Tuesday at a night ceremony in Eastbourne, southeast England.
Darling is a 41-year-old Oxford-born, Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist working throughout sculpture, video, drawing and efficiency; he additionally launched a group of poetry, “Virgins,” final 12 months. His Turner Prize-winning exhibition is an set up that locations viewers in a custom-built surroundings evoking chaotic metropolis streets and industrial limitations.
Barbed wire frames the entryway to a gallery area the place anthropromophized crowd-control fences stampede throughout the ground and climb the partitions. Tattered patchwork Union Jack flags hold from bent and twisted poles and railroad tracks careen right into a wall; unsettling props like crutches, dusty piles of ring binders and chunks of concrete are additionally positioned all through. The set up is product of each new and earlier works by the artist and “convey(s) a well-known but delirious world,” in keeping with a press launch. “Invoking societal breakdown, his presentation unsettles perceived notions of labour, class, Britishness and energy.”
Angus Mill
Darling’s set up exhibits British society in disarray, exploring themes of energy and exclusion.
Angus Mill
Darling’s successful exhibition “convey(s) a well-known but delirious world,” in keeping with a press assertion from the Turner Prize.
Darling was nominated alongside fellow artists Ghislaine Leung, Rory Pilgrim and Barbara Walker, who all exhibited installations for the award. (All their work will stay on show on the Towner Eastbourne artwork gallery by means of April 14, 2024.)
The Turner Prize, named after the Nineteenth-century painter JMW Turner, is awarded every year to an exemplary artist born or based mostly within the UK, and based mostly on a presentation of labor exhibited up to now 12 months. Darling was nominated for his solo exhibitions “No Medals, No Ribbons” at Fashionable Artwork Oxford and “Enclosures” on the Camden Artwork Centre.
Final 12 months’s prize was awarded to sculptor Veronica Ryan, and previous honorees have included Damien Hirst, Gillian Sporting, Gilbert & George, Anish Kapoor, Wolfgang Tillmans and Steve McQueen. Subsequent 12 months, the prize will have a good time its fortieth anniversary.
