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1984 - 1990 |
1991 - 1996 |
1997 - 2001 |
2002 - 2005
Follow the Turner Prize exhibitions of the last twenty years through some of the most notable comments made by the press.
1984
| 'Turner must be rotating in his grave at the Prize given in his name by the Tate Gallery.' |
Letter from GS Whittet to the Observer 11 November 1984
| 'Can the Turner rival the Booker? One criticism is that £10,000 is too little to be worth competing for. A Morley can fetch £100,000, a Hodgkin £60,000, a Gilbert and George £45,000, a Long £25,000.' |
Observer Review 4 November 1984
| 'The British art establishment, having already shown unforgivable ignorance and wickedness in its dealings with Turner's own Bequest to the nation, is now bandying his name about in the hope of giving some spurious historical credibility to a new prize cynically concocted to promote the interest of a small group of dealers, gallery directors and critics.' |
Waldemar Januszczak Guardian 6 November 1984
 Morley wins the Turner Prize
Waldemar Januszczak Guardian 7 November 1984
1985
| 'The Turner Prize, like the rot of the Arts Council, the rise of business sponsorship with strings attached, the growing importance of the PR man in art, the mess at the V&A, and the emergence of the ignorant "art consultant" is the direct result of inadequate government support for the arts. Forced out into the business circus, art has had to start clowning around.' |
Waldemar Januszczak Guardian 4 November 1985
Howard Hodgkin wins Turner art prize
Anne McHardy Guardian 13 November 1985
1986
| 'The Turner Prize is attempting to impose the taste of an arid bankrupt aesthetic.' |
Peter Fuller, speech given at the Turner Society, November 1986
| 'The Patrons of New Art have got themselves in a muddle. They are ignoring the very famous. Henry Moore was not considered for the first year of the prize, yet he was 85 and had nearly the same number of exhibitions around the world in those 12 months. Francis Bacon was mentioned in 1985 for his sensational Tate exhibition, but it was deemed to be above shortlisting. There sees to be a strong case for choosing only artists who need the publicity, although the jury have never admitted this.' |
Alistair Hicks Daily Telegraph 24 November 1986
| 'Certainly there has been a buzz in the air about the Turner Prize. I know of groups of office workers who have mounted sweepstakes to predict the name of the winner.' |
Waldemar Januszczak Guardian 27 November 1986
Film maker short-listed for Turner Prize
Waldemar Januszczak Guardian 1 July 1986
Y-fronts and junk take the prize
Waldemar Januszczak Guardian 26 November 1986
1987
| 'Deacon richly deserves any ward he is given. He won both for his own work and as a representative of a generation of young British sculptors acclaimed for their originality.' |
Richard Dorment Daily Telegraph 26 November 1987
Waldemar Januszczak talks to Helen Chadwick, Turner Prize shortlisted artists
Guardian 18 November 1986
1988
| 'This year without a shortlist, there was no chance to survey the field, no peg for advance publicity, no public debate and hardly any gossip.' |
Marina Vaizey Sunday Times 27 November 1988
| 'This year . no short list of contenders or token representation of artefacts was on offer. This measure was designed . to protect the tender or merely petulant sensibilities of unsuccessful finalists, rather in the manner of an over-protective hostess at a children's party: "But I say everyone has won and you shall all have a cake."' |
Giles Auty Spectator 3 December 1988
Turner Prize goes to sculptor Tony Cragg
Tim Hilton and Maev Kennedy Guardian 23 November 1988
1989
| 'The trouble with the Turner Prize right from the beginning has been that no one seems to be certain what it is for.' |
John Russell Taylor The Times 20 November 1989
| 'The Turner is neither as alluring as the Booker or as controversial as Miss World.' |
William Feaver Observer 10 November 1989
Turner art prize proves a walkover
Tim Hilton Guardian 22 November 1989
Deacon returns to his roots
Andrew Hoellering Guardian 23 November 1989
1990
| 'The Turner Prize was out in orbit and talking to itself; chronically lonely, with delusions of grandeur that often go with such cases, the Prize drifted on for another year and then this year, when Drexel finally collapsed, it blew away altogether.' |
Matthew Collings Art Monthly December 1990
On to 1991 - 1996
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