After many years of success for Scottish, born, based or trained, artists in the Turner Prize, the award and its attendant exhibition finally comes to the home of the "Glasgow Miracle".
But, on the face of it, the year the oft-controversial prize for British contemporary art comes to the city, and the Tramway venue, is a particularly unusual one to stage and show to the public. And it could also be a challenge to market to the general public.
The Turner Prize in Derry, the last time it was staged outside London, had 52,696 visitors over the course of the exhibition, but three of those four short listed artists in 2013 were relatively traditional shows of painting, sculpture and installation (Laure Prouvost, the winner, David Shrigley, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye) with only the "constructed situations" of Tino Seghal being more unconventional.
With the Tramway Turner Prize, three of the four short listed artists present their work in ways which are not straightforward
The artist collective Assemble, 16 artists at the moment, have been short listed for their collaborative work with whole communities, specifically the Granby Four Streets in Liverpool but also the Baltic Street Playground in Glasgow. How will that translate into a gallery show in an arts venue?
Janice Kerbel's operatic work DOUG is a song cycle of nine songs for six voices, and has been performed at the Mitchell Library and, one imagines, it will be staged again at the Tramway - perhaps it will be videoed for constant viewing.
Bonnie Camplin's work takes the form of disparate exhibitions, with "study rooms" of drawing, film, performance, music and writing, while Nicole Wermers sculptures and installation are the most straight-forward to stage.
Tramway is a large venue and also a flexible one, being home for music and performance as well as visual art: its curators will need all their skills to make this Turner Prize show cohere.
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