Brit professor bags `Turner Prize`
December 3, 2008
Turner Prize is perhaps Britain’s most contemporary controversial art award. The award was given to Londoner Mark Leckey on Monday night. Lecky is a forty-four-year old bookie favourite .and is also a professor of film studies at Stadelschule, Frankfurt. The announcement was made at Tate Britain on Monday night during a ceremony hosted by Nick Cave.
Women dominated the shortlist of four artists, Bangladesh- born Runa Islam, Polish Goska Macuga and Belfast-born Cathey Wikes, besides Lecky. Leckey was awarded ₤25,000 while the remaining three got ₤5,000 each.
The award was instituted in 1984. British artist, or an artist from any other country working in Britain, and under 50 years of age are eligible for the award, for their outstanding presentation or exhibition of their work during previous 12 months. Tate Britain director Stephen Deuchar chairs the jury comprising of architect David Adjaye, Daniel Birnbaumn, curator Suzanne Cotter, and Frieze editor Jennifer Higgie.
Last year, Mark Wallinger bagged the award for a representation (of peace activist Brian Haw’s protest in Parliament Square) of anti-Iraq war protest opposite the Palace of Westminster in London.The jury opined,
“With wit and originality, Lecky has found a variety of forms to communicate his fascination with visual culture.”
Leckey’s multimedia exhibition work featured characters from the US cartoon series the Simpsons.
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