Architecture collective Assemble was awarded the 2015 Turner Prize at a ceremony in Glasgow last night.
This is the first time that the Turner Prize has been hosted in Scotland, with the exhibition being held at Tramway, a contemporary art space operated by Glasgow Life, the charity that manages cultural and sporting venues in the city. The exhibition will run until 17 January 2016.
Assemble, a collective of 18 who work across the fields of art, design and architecture, was nominated for projects that include a collaboration with local residents in Toxteth, Liverpool.
"I think it's safe to say this nomination was a surprise to all of us and the last six months has been a super-surreal experience,” said Assemble member Joseph Halligan. "But it's allowed us this amazing opportunity to start something, Granby Workshop, which we really hope will live on for a very, very, very long time.”
The other three shortlisted artists were: Bonnie Camplin, for the Military Industrial Complex at the South London Gallery, a work that spans the disciplines of drawing, film, performance, music and writing as well as research techniques.
Janice Kerbel, for her performance Doug, which was commissioned by the Common Guild at the Mitchell Library, Glasgow. The work takes the form of nine songs for six voices and calls on the history of physical comedy, animated cartoons, narrative ballad and operatic librettos.
Nicole Wermers was nominated for her exhibition Infrastruktur, at Herald Street, London. The artist adopts the glossy aesthetics and materials of modernist design and high fashion, addressing themes of lifestyle, class, consumption and control.
The Turner Prize 2015 jury were Alistair Hudson, the director of Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art; Kyla McDonald, the artistic director of Glasgow Sculpture Studios; Joanna Mytkowska, the director of the Museum Sztuki Nowoczesnej; and Jan Verwoert, a critic and curator. The jury was chaired by Alex Farquharson, who started work as the director of Tate Britain last week after moving from Nottingham Contemporary.
Next year’s Turner Prize exhibition will return to London, before moving to Hull in 2017 to coincide with its year as the UK City of Culture.
This is the first time that the Turner Prize has been hosted in Scotland, with the exhibition being held at Tramway, a contemporary art space operated by Glasgow Life, the charity that manages cultural and sporting venues in the city. The exhibition will run until 17 January 2016.
Assemble, a collective of 18 who work across the fields of art, design and architecture, was nominated for projects that include a collaboration with local residents in Toxteth, Liverpool.
"I think it's safe to say this nomination was a surprise to all of us and the last six months has been a super-surreal experience,” said Assemble member Joseph Halligan. "But it's allowed us this amazing opportunity to start something, Granby Workshop, which we really hope will live on for a very, very, very long time.”
The other three shortlisted artists were: Bonnie Camplin, for the Military Industrial Complex at the South London Gallery, a work that spans the disciplines of drawing, film, performance, music and writing as well as research techniques.
Janice Kerbel, for her performance Doug, which was commissioned by the Common Guild at the Mitchell Library, Glasgow. The work takes the form of nine songs for six voices and calls on the history of physical comedy, animated cartoons, narrative ballad and operatic librettos.
Nicole Wermers was nominated for her exhibition Infrastruktur, at Herald Street, London. The artist adopts the glossy aesthetics and materials of modernist design and high fashion, addressing themes of lifestyle, class, consumption and control.
The Turner Prize 2015 jury were Alistair Hudson, the director of Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art; Kyla McDonald, the artistic director of Glasgow Sculpture Studios; Joanna Mytkowska, the director of the Museum Sztuki Nowoczesnej; and Jan Verwoert, a critic and curator. The jury was chaired by Alex Farquharson, who started work as the director of Tate Britain last week after moving from Nottingham Contemporary.
Next year’s Turner Prize exhibition will return to London, before moving to Hull in 2017 to coincide with its year as the UK City of Culture.
