The shortlist of four artists has been announced for the UK’s most prestigious art award.
The shortlisted artists, Enrico David, Lucy Skaer, Richard Wright and Roger Hiorns, will also become the subject of three-month exhibition at Tate Britain.
Pictured above is Hiorns’ Seizure installation, in which he filled a derelict flat in South London with liquid copper sulphate. After a period of time, every surface of the space became encrusted with blue crystals, to spectacular effect.
Pictured below:
Roger Hiorns, Seizure 2008, a Jerwood/Artangel Commission Harper Road, London. Courtesy Corvi-Mora, London.
Enrico David, How Do You Love Dzzzzt by Mammy? Installation view Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel, 2009. Courtesy Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Köln/Berlin.
Lucy Skaer, Black Alphabet 2008, 26 dust coal sculptures. Courtesy of the artist and doggerfisher, Edinburgh. Photography credit: Serge Hasenböhler.
Richard Wright, Untitled 2005, Gouache and enamel on paper. Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery, London/New York, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow, and BQ, Berlin.
