SHORTLIST FOR 2011 TURNER PRIZE ANNOUNCED

The Guardian’s Charlotte Higgins reports on the just-released shortlist for the 2011 Turner Prize. The four artists nominated for the prestigious award include two painters, George Shaw and Karla Black; sculptor Martin Boyce; and video artist Hilary Lloyd. One of the prize’s jurors, Katrina Brown, director of the Common Guild in Glasgow, states that the list doesn’t represent “one school, or cluster, or movement—there is every medium in the mix and it has a diversity and maturity about it.”

For the first time in the prize’s twenty-seven-year history, the companion exhibition will be held outside a Tate Gallery—at the Baltic Gallery in Gateshead. The show will open on October 21, 2011. The prize itself will be announced during a ceremony on December 5, 2011. Aside from Brown, the other judges are Penelope Curtis, director of Tate Briatain; Godfrey Worsdale, director of Baltic; and curators Vasif Kortun and Nadia Schneider.