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Tacita Dean
Shortlisted: 1998

Dean works primarily with 16mm film, which she combines with a variety of other media. She is preoccupied with notions of time, and the relationship between history and the present is a recurring theme in her art. Much of her work also features the sea, both as a backdrop for human drama, and as a symbol of psychological and physical isolation.

Tacita Dean was born in Canterbury, Kent in 1965. Between 1985 and 1992 she pursued her studies at Falmouth School of Art, the Supreme School of Fine Art in Athens, and at the Slade School of Art. In 1998 she was nominated for the Prize, for her versatility demonstrated in a solo exhibition at the Frith Gallery.

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

View Tacita Dean in the Tate Collection