Last week Tate Britain announced the four nominees for the Turner Prize, one of the most prestigious awards for British contemporary art. Learn more about the artists on the 2015 shortlist, which features three women and a design collective.
Assemble
The 18-member design collective based in London is the first architectural group to be shortlisted for the Turner Prize. Assemble’s works consist of transformed spaces or environments that center on public interaction and collaboration. The group received the nomination for its projects at the Granby Four Streets community in Liverpool.
Bonnie Camplin
Blending drawing, performance, film, music, and writing to critique power structures, artist Bonnie Camplin calls her practice the Invented Life. She was nominated for her work The Military Industrial Complex at South London Gallery, which featured a “study room” with information about the notion of consensus reality.
Janice Kerbel
Janice Kerbel, a London-based Canadian artist who works in audio recordings, printed matter, and performances, was nominated for her performative work Doug. The operatic piece was commissioned by the Common Guild at Mitchell Library in Glasgow.
Nicole Wermers
Nominated for her installation Infrastruckur at Herald Street in London, German artist Nicole Wermers works in multiple mediums, from photography to sculpture to collage, to investigate art and design in consumer culture. In this piece, she explored the consumerist aesthetics of fashion.
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