The Turner Prize 2010

The Turner Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding exhibition. Four artists are shortlisted and they present their work in a three-month exhibition at Tate Britain.

Dexter Dalwood has been nominated for his solo exhibition at Tate St Ives, which revealed the rich depth and range of his approach to making painting that draws upon historical tradition as well as contemporary cultural and political events. He is known for making paintings of famous places he’s never seen, making plausible suggestions of those iconic haunts, Dexter Dalwood pictures his own documentation of history.

Angela de la Cruz has been nominated for her solo exhibition, After at Camden Arts Centre, London. De la Cruz uses the language of painting and sculpture to create striking works that may represent the death of conventional paintings. Her paintings are more like a piece of sculpture escaping the realms of the canvas while braking down its boundaries.

Susan Philipsz has been nominated for the presentations of her work Lowlands at the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art and Long Gone in the group exhibition Mirrors at the Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Spain. Philipsz uses her own voice to create uniquely evocative sound installations that play upon and extend the poetics of specific, often out-of-the-way spaces.

The Otolith Group have been nominated for their project A Long Time Between Suns, which took the form of exhibitions at Gasworks and The Showroom, London with accompanying publication. The Otolith Group questions the nature of documentary history across time by using material found in its many varieties, in particular the moving image.