The Turner Prize 2019 has been awarded to a collective bringing together the four nominated artists: Abu Hamdan/Cammock/Murillo/Shani.
The four nominees – Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo, and Tai Shani – came together to request that the jury consider awarding the Prize to them as a collective. In recognition of these artists’ shared commitment to urgent social and political causes, the jury unanimously decided to honor that request and praised the artists for their commitment to the collective power of art.
In a joint letter the artists said: ‘At this time of political crisis in Britain and much of the world, when there is already so much that divides and isolates people and communities, we feel strongly motivated to use the occasion of the Prize to make a collective statement in the name of commonality, multiplicity and solidarity – in art as in society.’
Image courtesy of Turner Contemporary
