Art World Descends on Bradford as Prestigious Turner Prize Comes to City Gallery

Art world descends on Bradford as prestigious Turner Prize comes to city gallery

THE art world descended on a Bradford gallery this week as the city prepares to host one of the world’s most prestigious art prizes.

The Turner Prize finalist who sculpts to the rhythm of disco

Nnena Kalu is the first learning-disabled artist to be shortlisted for this year's Turner Prize. For decades Kalu’s bold, colourful sculptures and drawings have been fuelled by her love of disco music. Now her work is being recognised by one of the world’s most prestigious awards for the visual arts.

Exhibition by artists shortlisted for Turner Prize unveiled in Bradford

The four shortlisted artists are Rene Matic, Nnena Kalu, Mohammed Sami and Zadie Xa, with the winner due to be announced at a ceremony in December.

Turner Prize 2025 opens in Bradford

Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture has unveiled an exhibition of works by the four artists who have been shortlisted for this year’s Turner Prize

‘There’s no fudging. She deserves to win’: critics react as Turner Prize 2025 opens

Nominees for the £25,000 award were selected on the basis of what the judges felt to be the strongest and best exhibitions of the past year

Turner Prize Reactions: Mohammed Sami Emerges as a Frontrunner for UK’s Top Art Award

The Turner Prize, England’s most polarizing art award, is back, with a show of work by the four nominated artists for this year’s honor now on view at the Cartwright Hall Art Gallery in Bradford, England. For once, however, there is some degree of consensus: at least three critics want Mohammed Sami to win. Sami, a painter born in Baghdad and based in London, makes large-scale paintings that deal with war, albeit in oblique ways. Rather than e…