Turner Prize 1994 artists: Willie Doherty

Against the background of increasing controversy over media coverage of the troubles in the late 1980s, Doherty began to use images from television and newspapers, and in the early 1990s he began to use video, slide projections and sound. The slide installation Same Difference (1992) is typical in employing the face of a woman re-photographed from a TV news broadcast along with projected words. His later work carried suggestions of detective narratives, film noir movies and surveillance into collision with landscape imagery. In the video installation The Only Good One is a Dead One (1993; Dublin, Irish MOMA), for which Doherty was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1994, an actor’s voice shifts the viewer from the position of assassin and target while the camera looks out from a car.