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Liam Gillick
Shortlisted: 2002

Through interventions into specific architectural spaces, whether a gallery, public housing estate or airport, Liam Gillick encourages people to negotiate and experience differently the environments he has created. He has said of his work: 'I absolutely believe that visual environments change behaviours and the way people act. I'm not prescribing certain thinking - it is a softer approach than that - I'm offering an adjustment of things, which works through default. If some people just stand with their backs to the work and talk to each other, then that's good.'

Liam Gillick was born in Aylesbury, England in 1964. From 1983 to 1987 he studied at Hertfordshire College of Art and then Goldsmiths College. In 2002 he was shortlisted for his outdoor installations at Tate Britain, and his exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery, in which he 'reaffirmed his ability to create complex works of art that set up the possibility for dialogue.'

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

View Liam Gillick in the Tate Collection