Jasleen Kaur wins the 2024 Turner Prize for work reflecting on her childhood in Glasgow, including a Ford Escort Cabriolet Mk3 covered with a giant doily titled Social mobile. Kaul, 38, is the youngest contestant on this year’s shortlist. The judges were impressed by her “unexpected and interesting mix of material”.
The annual Turner Prize is the UK’s most prestigious visual arts honour. The winner will receive £25,000 and the shortlisted artist will receive £10,000. Every other year the works are shown in an exhibition at London’s Tate Britain (where the prize travels across the country), with the 2024 exhibition opening on 25 September and running until February 2025 January 16th.
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Kaul’s installation “Alter Altar” at Tate Britain (which he returned to after last year’s ceremony in Sussex) is headlined by a vintage car erupting from its interior with a mix of pop, Music of hip hop and qawwali religious music. speaker. The work also features liturgical bells and the quintessential Scottish soda Irn-Bru, celebrating Cowher’s Sikh community in Glasgow.
Alex Farquharson, Director of Tate Britain, sits on the Turner Prize jury alongside Rosie Cooper, Director of Wysing Arts Centre. Lydia Yee, curator and art historian; Ekow Eshun, writer, broadcaster and curator; and Sam Thorne, managing director and CEO of Japan House London. Farquharson said they were impressed by Kaur’s “transformation of various everyday objects, some everyday and disposable, into animated environments.”
He added that Kaul’s art “opens up larger questions of memory, culture and politics that have significant historical and geographical coordinates, particularly the legacy of colonialism.”
British actor James Norton presented the artist with a £25,000 (approximately $30,000) gift at Tate Britain on Tuesday night.
After accepting the award, Kaul told the audience that she was unaware of the Turner Prize growing up because she had no “cultural exposure.”
“I’ve received a lot of messages today from the local Sikh community and people I grew up with,” she said. “Something like this that’s so obvious means a lot to a lot of different people. It means different things to different groups, and I’d like to speak for all of them.”
Her exhibition ‘Alter Altar’ at Glasgow Tramway in 2023 was the reason for her nomination for this year’s award. She recreated the show at Tate Britain, which has been described as a throwback to the glory days of the Turner Prize, when well-known works included Damien Hirst’s Cow and Calf Pickled in Formaldehyde (1995) and Tracey Emin’s “Cow and Calf Pickled in Formaldehyde.” my bed (1999).
Other artists shortlisted for this year’s awards include Claudette Johnson, Delaine Le Bas and Pio Abad.
