TURNER PRIZE 2005 EXHIBITION OPENS AT TATE BRITAIN

LONDON, 17 OCTOBER 2005—The Turner Prize 2005 exhibition opens tomorrow at Tate Britain. It features work by the four shortlisted artists, Darren Almond, Gillian Carnegie, Jim Lambie and Simon Starling. The winner of the often controversial prize will be announced by Culture Minister, David Lammy, during a live broadcast of the award ceremony on Channel 4 on the evening of Monday 5 December. This year’s prize fund is £40,000 with £25,000 going to the winner and £5,000 each for the other shortlisted artists.

The shortlisted artists for the Turner Prize 2005 are:

Darren Almond who presents his intimate four-screen video installation If I Had You. The installation articulates the emotional longing and losses of the artist's grandmother as she observes a lone pair of dancers in the famous Tower ballroom in Blackpool.

Gillian Carnegie who presents an installation of paintings covering a breadth of subjects and diversity of technique. Working in the traditional genres of landscape, still-life, portraiture and the nude, Carnegie investigates the materiality of the medium and provides a challenge to its established languages.

Gillian Carnegie: Red 2004
Oil on board
Cranford Collection, London
Photo courtesy of Tate Britain

Jim Lambie who will transform his room through a new site specific installation. His floor piece using vinyl tape will show three new sculptural assemblages which combine diverse materials and resurrect found objects to evoke a range of associations.

Simon Starling who presents Shedboatshed (Mobile Architecture No.2), a circuitous project in which a wooden boathouse was transformed into a boat, paddled down the Rhine and remade as a boathouse. Starling raises ideas about nature, technology and economics to reveal hidden relationships and histories. He will also show Tabernas Desert Run, the improvised hydrogen-fuelled bicycle on which he crossed the Spanish desert and the botanical watercolour of a cactus he painted with the bicycle's only waste product, water.

Simon Starling: Tabernas Desert Run 2004
Fuel cell powered bicycle, vitrine, watercolour on paper. Detail of watercolour on paper
Courtesy the artist & The Modern Institute, Glasgow
Photo courtesy of Tate Britain

Turner Prize 2005 Exhibition
Tate Britain, Level 2 Exhibition Galleries
18 October 2005 - 22 January 2006

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