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Anish Kapoor
Shortlisted: 1991

Kapoor became known as a sculptor in the early 1980s. His visual language is dominated by archetypal images, including voids, mountains, vessels, trees, fire and water. Colour has played a key role in his art; like many modern artists he believes in its spiritual and symbolic value, its power to transform. His early sculptures consisted of shapes covered in pure pigments of red, yellow and blue.

Anish Kapoor was born in Bombay, India in 1954. From 1973 to 1978 he attended Hornsey College of Art and then studied at Chelsea School of Art. Kapoor won the Turner Prize in 1991 for his accomplished sculptural works, as seen in his work representing Britain at the Venice Biennale.

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

View Anish Kapoor in the Tate Collection