A red Ford Escort covered in a giant doily is among the artworks nominated for this year’s Turner Prize.
The four artists in the running for the prestigious £25,000 prize include three Londoners with work including traditional drawing as well as more eccentric installations all shortlisted by the judges.
Jasleen Kaur’s work uses the car, which she says represents her dad’s “migrant desires”, and the doily made to represent the cotton mills that employed so many post-war migrants in her show about growing up a Sikh in Glasgow.
The show also features packets of sweets, bottles of irn-bru, a football scarf and fake vomit which are laid out with a soundtrack featuring the artists voice as well as samples of pop music and religious songs.
Also nominated is Pio Abad whose show To Those Sitting in Darkness featured his own sketches and sculptures alongside artefacts from museums in Oxford including weapons from his native Philippines inspired by the current debate around restitution which has seen museums return contested items back to the countries they were originally taken from.
Also on the shortlist are Claudette Johnson whose traditional pastel and water colour images of black men and women she says are part of her attempt to “tell a different story about our presence in this country” and Delaine Le Bas who uses fabric and theatrical costumes to pay tribute to her Roma roots inspired in part by the death of her grandmother.
Alex Farquharson, Director of Tate Britain and chair of the Turner Prize jury said: “It is an honour to announce such a fantastic shortlist of artists and I cannot wait to see their exhibition at Tate Britain this autumn.
“All four of them make work that is full of life. They show how contemporary art can fascinate, surprise and move us, and how it can speak powerfully of complex identities and memories, often through the subtlest of details.
“In the Turner Prize’s 40th year, this shortlist proves that British artistic talent is as rich and vibrant as ever.”
An exhibition featuring work by all four nominees will be at Tate Britain from September 25 to February 16.
This year is the 40th anniversary of the prize set up to boost the profile of contemporary art.
Previous winners include high profile names such as Mark Wallinger, Grayson Perry and Damien Hirst.
This year’s winner will be announced at an award ceremony at Tate Britain in Pimlico on December 3.
