The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist. Between 1991 and 2016, only artists under the age of 50 were eligible. The prize is awarded at Tate Britain every other year, with various venues outside of London being used in alternate years. Since its beginnings in 1984 it has become the UK's most publicised art award. The award represents all media.
Tate Britain: usual venue for the awarding of the Turner Prize.
Tracey Emin, debate controversy in 1997, nominee in 1999.
Director Steve McQueen at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 2013
Wolfgang Tillmans, winner in 2000
Joseph Mallord William Turner, known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.
Self-Portrait, oil on canvas, c. 1799
Caerlaverock Castle (c. 1832), Aberdeen Archives Gallery and Museums
Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino, 1839
Fishermen at Sea, exhibited in 1796, the first oil painting exhibited by Turner at the Royal Academy