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Glenn Brown
Shortlisted: 2000

Brown deftly mixes fine art and popular culture to create paintings and sculptures of baffling complexity. His lengthy process of working from reproductions reflects how often we experience art at second-hand, though photographs. He adds further twists by choosing reproductions that aren't always faithful to the original in colour or tone, and then cropping or otherwise manipulating the images. 'I re-enliven it into something completely different. Something that makes personal allusions to my own life.'

Glenn Brown was born in Hexham in 1966. From 1984 to 1992 he studied at Norwich School of Art, the Bath College of Higher Education and then trained at Goldsmith's College. He was nominated for the Prize in 2000 for the growing complexity of his paintings and sculptures as demonstrated in his exhibitions at Jerwood Space, the Max Hetzler Gallery, as well as the Patrick Painter Gallery.

This information has been taken from The Turner Prize: Twenty Years, by Virginia Button, Tate Publishing, 2003.