Artworks that won the Turner Prize

Antony Gormley’s field sculptures – Everything you need to know

Sculptures / 7 minutes of reading

British artist Antony Gormley is well known for his life-size statues which mimic the human body. His Field series, however, represents a different approach. Each work consisted of a couple of ten thousands of small soil figures to up to 210,000 used in his latest piece of the series, Asian Field, 2003. Each of them […]

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Why was Tracey Emin’s bed a shock to the audience?

Installations / 4 minutes of reading

Tracey Emin’s work has always been shrouded in revelation and discovery, where she uses her real-life events as the inspiration for her works. So far, her art has become varied to include video installations, paintings, drawings, neon sculptures, photography, and even needlework. Emin’s work is characterized by an imminence and frequently sexually challenging boldness that

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Why did Rachel Whiteread’s House earn her the title Worst Artist?

Architecture, Sculptures / 4 minutes of reading

26 min How Rachel Whiteread became famous Is it possible to illustrate memory or lack of it? This is exactly what the sculptures made by Rachel Whiteread strive to achieve. She was born in London in 1963, where she lives and earns a living as an artist. In 1993, she had already made a name

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What did Gillian Wearing’s Signs say?

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

Themes of Gillian Wearing’s work Gillian Wearing has made a successful career as an artist that spans decades from creating candid photos and videos that reveal the disconnect that exists in people’s personal and inner lives versus their public personas or what they show the rest of the world. Her works also highlight the disconnect

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See how Jim Lambie’s hypnotic floor installations transform rooms

Installations / 3 minutes of reading

Jim Lambie is a visual artist, sculptor, and musician. He is perhaps most famous for his colorful and mesmerizing floor tapestries. Lambie’s floor art is done using differently colored duct tape that runs in straight lines to form colorful repetitive patterns that change the visual dynamics of a space in a big way. For this

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Why did Jeremy Deller bring an Iraqi suicide car bomb into museums?

Sculptures / 2 minutes of reading

In the Imperial War Museum in London, surrounded by some of the most powerful military hardware of the last 100 years rests a rusting, crumpled car. This is a clear example of what war does. The car is a piece by Jeremy Deller and was a car that was contorted in a street bombing that

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