Windrush sculptor Veronica Ryan awarded Turner Prize at ceremony in Liverpool

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    >The winner of the Turner Prize 2022 has been announced as sculptor Veronica Ryan at a ceremony in Liverpool.

    >The Montserrat-born British artist, 66, was recognised for her work which honours the Windrush generation and explores the Covid pandemic.

    >This year’s Turner Prize collection is being held at Tate Liverpool to mark 15 years since the award was first held in the city.

    >Tate Liverpool was the first gallery outside London to host the prize in 2007 when it helped launch the city’s year as European Capital of Culture.

    >Veronica Ryan has exhibited across the world and was made an OBE for services to art earlier this year.

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    >She was praised by the judges for the “personal and poetic way she extends the language of sculpture” through found and usually forgotten objects and crafted materials.

    >The shortlisted artists for 2022 were: Heather Phillipson, Ingrid Pollard, Veronica Ryan and Sin Wai Kin.

    >A free exhibition of the four shortlisted artists is being held at Tate Liverpool until March 19 2023 (https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/turner-prize-2022).

    *PA News* via ITV.

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