MARTIN BOYCE WINS THE 2011 TURNER PRIZE

Martin Boyce, forty-four, has won the 2011 Turner Prize. The forty-thousand-dollar award was presented by Mario Testino at the Baltic Center for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England. Charlotte Higgins of The Guardian quotes the judges as praising Boyce’s work for “opening up of a new sense of poetry.” Other artists who were short-listed for the prize include George Shaw, forty-four, Karla Black, thirty-eight, and Hilary Lloyd, forty-six. Boyce graduated from the Glasgow School of Art’s environmental art program, exhibited at Tate Britain in 2006, and represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale in 2009.