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HULL, UK — Across the northeast industrial city of Hull, first-time host to this year's Turner Prize exhibition, a clever billboard marketing campaign declares, 'Whatever you think about Turner Prize 2017, you're right.' Nodding to the spectrum of critique the Prize attracts as an annual showcase for 'emerging' British talent, the Prize is...
This year's Turner Prize exhibition, which is taking place in Hull's Ferens Art Gallery, is a quieter affair than the showcase at Tate Britain in 2016. There are no headline-grabbing images to match Anthea Hamilton's giant buttocks or Michael Dean's sea of coins from last year. Instead, ideas about rootlessness and belonging, states of limbo and...
Hurvin Anderson’s exhibition at Ikon, ‘reporting back’, saw the artist returning to his hometown of Birmingham. Tracing 15 years of work, this was the artist’s first survey show in the UK. Often depicting places of leisure – a languid day at the beach, a tennis court, an island of lush vegetation within a city park – Anderson’s landscapes and...
While Edinburgh's National Gallery of Scotland recently held their Peter Doig exhibition No Foreign Lands, Birmingham's Ikon Gallery displayed an extensive selection of Hurvin Anderson's work in Reporting Back. The retrospectives overlapped temporally, but also formally and thematically. Each was a homecoming of sorts, and the painters'...
The Turner Prize was established in 1984 by the Tate and the Patrons of New Art to broaden visibility for art in the UK. In this film, curator Sacha Craddock tells us about Hurvin Andersoni's Turner Prize exhibition. The exhibition opened in September and runs until January 2018. We headed to Ferens to meet Turner Prize 2017 curators Sacha...