The city that has produced more winners and nominees for the most famous award in contemporary art today hosts the exhibition that paves the way to the prize for the first time.
Tramway, the post-industrial arts venue created from a former tram depot for Glasgow's year as European City of Culture in 1990, is the venue for the show of work by the nominees for the 2016 Turner Prize until January 17 of next year, with the winner of the award itself being announced there on December 7.
This year's four shortlisted artists are Assemble, Bonnie Camplin, Janice Kerbel and Nicole Wermers. Although Glasgow has produced no fewer than six winners and 12 Turner Prize nominees, none of 2016's shortlisted artists have a direct connection with the city. The collective Assemble and Janice Kerbel have, however, both recently made work in the city, and, in Ms Kerbel's case, it is for that piece that she is nominated.
Her half-hour long sound work, DOUG, for six classically-trained singers, was commissioned by Glasgow-based gallery The Common Guild, and performed at The Mitchell Library in May. Assemble built an adventure playground in Baltic Street in the east end of Glasgow in the run-up to the city's hosting of the Commonwealth Games last year. The group has recreated a version of its Granby Four Streets project in Toxteth, Liverpool, at Tramway for the Turner exhibition.
The exhibition is completed by Bonnie Camplin’s The Military Industrial Complex, first shown last year at South London Gallery, and Nicole Wermers' Untitled Chairs (2014-15), which has fur coats sewn on to modernist chairs by designer Marcel Breuer.
In the past 20 years graduates of Glasgow School of Art have been a regular presence on the Turner Prize shortlists. Nominees Christine Borland, Jim Lambie, Nathan Coley, Cathy Wilkes, Lucy Skaer, Karla Black, Luke Fowler, David Shrigley, Ciara Philips and Tris Vonna-Michell have all studied or worked in Glasgow and Glasgow-based winners included Douglas Gordon (1996), Simon Starling (2005), Richard Wright (2009), Martin Boyce (2011) and Duncan Campbell (2014). Scots Martin Creed (2001) and Susan Philipsz (2010) were raised in the city.
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