Turner Prize

[melv16]

I wonder what pile of complete and utter rubbish will win it this year?

[kvalidir]

Nothing like a bit of positivity is there- and that's nothing like a bit of positivity ;-)

[murraymints]

Was once at the Gate with mum and dad ...walked into a room with a bucket and mop in the middle..mop lying down..dad picked it up and placed in the corner with the bucket thing "so nobody would trip over it " we were soon told we had ruined the art installation! We didn't stop laughing for months !

[Buenchico]

You're a bit late in asking that question!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42244324

[murraymints]

Tate...^^predictive doodah !

[Mamyalynne]

Chris just beat me :-)

[tonyav]

It will be for one ( or more ) errrrrrm pieces of art on this tlink for a guess, melv.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42244324

[melv16]

Whoops. The winner looks quite good. I'll eat my words:-)

[4candles]

There's a better class of entry in the Turnip Prize.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-42244179

[naomi24]

I just saw it on the news. A pile of complete and utter rubbish won.

[Mamyalynne]

I'd certainly give her work house room above some of the previous years winners.

Must admit I haven't seen all the short-listed works yet.

[pastafreak]

I rather like her work...I think people might find it easier to relate to than that of many previous winners.

[Old_Geezer]

Painting simplistic pictures of dark skinned folk on crockery is an award winner ?
Could've be worse I suppose.

[bhg481]

I'm thinking of entering for it next near. I have a school report that shows I was 32nd in the class at art in the exams; there were only 31 boys in the class. I must be in with a chance of winning with qualifications like that.

[chanel5]

I had a good chortle at the post by Murraymints because I did something a bit similar. At an exhibition in a small gallery in Belfast I sat down on what I thought was a low brick wall to write a few notes in my notebook. I was very quickly asked to get up because I was sitting on one of the exhibits which was made of polystyrene and likely to snap under me at any minute.

[emmie]

if anyone cares to look at my thread about what the school children thought of some of the exhibits, they made some pithy and revealing remarks. Personally i think mostly its tosh, like Tracy Emins unmade bed, emperors new clothes does come to mind.

[emmie]

like the one in the Tate modern i think, a large crack in the floor, with a note don't fall in, or some such nonsense.

[emmie]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1582955.html

[mikey4444]

Turner must be turning in his grave.

[jno]

not at all, mikey, the things people say about the prizewinners now are much what people said about Turner. Victoria thought he was literally mad.

[mikey4444]

jno....I can't agree I'm afraid. The truly awful Gilbert and George won the prize in 1986, who think that photographing close ups of people anuses is somehow "art".....I can't recall Turner ever trying that !

I will agree that the Prize winners have been mixed.....Howard Hodgkin I greatly admired, and I quite like Grayson Perry.