Turner Prize 2011
Martin Boyce accepted his Turner Prize last night, moments after a tutu-wearing streaker was dragged away. Mario Testino, celebrity photographer, handed the £25,000 prize to the Glasgow School of Art graduate, who highlighted the plight of young students facing huge debts and the terrible situation currently facing art colleges in the disastrous economic climate.
The great and the good of the art world were out in force on a frosty Northumbrian night. Victoria Pomery, Director of Turner Contemporary, was there reflecting on the Queen’s visit to the Margate gallery last week. Visitor figures were a topic of conversation: 6,500 last week alone. Godfrey Worslade, Director of Baltic, has seen 150,000 visit since the Turner Prize opened at the end of October and Simon Wallis, Director of The Hepworth Wakefield, has seen a phenomenal 400,000 since opening in May. All this highlights the appetite there is for contemporary art.
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