The Turner Prize is a contemporary art award that was set up in 1984 to celebrate new developments in contemporary art. The purpose of the annual Turner Prize is to draw attention to new developments in the world of contemporary art in Britain and to encourage wide debate around them. Each year a jury is asked to select a shortlist of four artists, British-born or working in Britain, whose publicly exhibited work over the past year has seemed especially innovative or important. An exhibition introducing the work of each artist is then staged at Tate Britain.

This booklet accompanies The Turner Prize 2009 and highlights each of the four artists being nominated this year, Enrico David, Lucy Skaer, Roger Hiorns and Richard Wright.

The winner of the Prize will be announced on 7th December.

32 pp
17 colour illustrations