Who Are the Nominees for the 2024 Turner Prize?

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Nominees for Britain’s most prestigious contemporary art award, The Turner Prize, were announced at London‘s Tate Britain this morning. They are Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson, Jasleen Kaur and Delaine Le Bas. This year marks the prize’s 40th anniversary.

Personal histories and themes of familiar life unite the work of each artist, with Alex Farquharson, Director of Tate Britain and chair of the Turner Prize, remarking that each artist makes work ‘full of life’.

Pio Abad is nominated for his solo exhibition To Those Sitting in Darkness at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Through drawing, etching and sculpture, Abad highlights overlooked histories of artefacts in the Ashmolean and draws parallels with familiar household items.

Claudette Johnson’s solo exhibitions Presence at the Courtauld Gallery, London and Drawn Out at Ortuzar Projects, New York have earned her nomination for the prize. The jury noted her sensitive yet dramatic use of line, colour and scale, which communicate a certain intimacy with her subjects.

The jury noted that Claudette Johnson has had a breakout year. Having paused her practice between the 1980s and 2010s, the jury found Johnson’s continued risk-taking and new forms of practice particularly convincing.

Jasleen Kaur is nominated for Alter Altar at Glasgow’s Tramway. Through evocative combination of sound and sculpture, Kaur addresses family memory and community struggle.

Like Abad, Kaur also utilises familiar household items in her work; irn-bru, a giant doily and kinteic hand bells all recall the artist’s upbringing in Glasgow’s Sikh community.

Delaine Le Bas has been nominated for her solo exhibition at Secession, Vienna, Incipit Vita Nova. Here Begins The New Life/A New Life Is Beginning., where she transformed the gallery through theatrical costumes, sculptures and painted hung fabrics.

An exhibition of the nominees’ work will be held at Tate Britain from 25 September 2024–16 February 2025. The winner will be announced in December. —[O]

Main image: Exhibition view: Jasleen Kaur, Alter Altar, Tramway, Glasgow (31 March–8 October 2023). Courtesy Tramway and Glasgow Life. Photo: Keith Hunter.