PHF Awards for Artist recipient Elizabeth Price wins Turner Prize
Elizabeth Price, a recipient of this year’s Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists, has been named the 2012 Turner Prize winner.
The London based artist, who makes single-screen, narrative videos for gallery installation, was presented the prestigious £25,000 prize by Jude Law at an evening ceremony at Tate Britain on 3 December 2012.
Price was nominated for ‘HERE’ – her solo exhibition at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, in which she presented a trilogy of video installations. The Tate website describes Price’s films as ‘reanimating existing archives of imagery, texts and music to explore our complex relationship to objects and consumer culture. Her carefully sequenced films guide us through immersive virtual spaces, derived from the cultural debris of the material world.’
The Turner Prize is presented every year to an artist under 50, living, working or born in Britain for an outstanding exhibition in the previous 12 months.
Paul Noble and Luke Fowler, two of the four artists shortlisted for this year’s prize, were also PHF Award recipients in 2000 and 2010 respectively.
Other winners of the Turner Prize who have also received a PHF Award include: 2004 winner Jeremy Deller (PHF Award recipient in 2001); 2005 winner Simon Starling (1999); 2006 winner Tomma Abts (2004); 2008 winner Mark Leckey (2007), 2009 winner Richard Wright (1998) and 2011 winner Martin Boyce (2003).
