No Turner Prize, but plenty of prizes for new art

TEN ARTISTS have been given £10,000 bursaries in lieu of this year’s Turner Prize.

The annual prize was called off this year because of the pandemic. A jury picked the 10 artists for their “significant contributions to new developments in British contemporary art”.

They include Arika, an Edinburgh-based political arts organisation whose work “supports connections between art and social change”.

It also features GhanaianRussian photographer Liz Johnson Artur, based in London, who has photographed the lives of people from the African diaspora for more than 30 years.

Oreet Ashery’s work explores issues of gender, fiction, biopolitics and community.

While Oxford-based

The artists reflect the pressing issues we face as a society today.

Alex Farquharson, Tate Britain director

Shawanda Corbett combines ceramics, paintings and performance to question the idea of the “complete” body.

Glasgow-based artist and singer Jamie Crewe uses video, sculpture, drawing and text to examine ideas of identity, power, desire, community and history.

While Cardiff-based artist Sean Edwards intertwines simple sculptural objects and mixed media installations with personal family histories, according to the judges.

And Sidsel Meineche Hansen “investigates the ways in which virtual, robotic and human bodies are manufactured and manipulated in today’s technology-driven, capitalist society”.

Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson said: “The artists are all politically engaged and reflect the pressing issues we face as a society today.”

PICTURES: TATE BRITAIN/PA WIRE yp.newsdesk@ypn.co.uk @yorkshirepost AMONG THE WINNERS: From top – contemporary art pieces by Arika and Jamie Crewe (inset), Alberta Whittle, Sean Edwards, Sidsel Meineche Hansen. They are among 10 artists who have received £10,000 each after the Turner Prize was called off this year because of the pandemic.