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Turner Prize 2022 is awarded to sculptor Veronica Ryan, dividing critics
Natasha Leake, Tatler
December 2022
Sculptor Veronica Ryan has been named the winner of the Turner Prize 2022. Her work, described as ‘meditative and poetic’, honours the Windrush generation and explores the Covid pandemic. Ryan, 66, a Montserrat-born British artist was awarded the annual £25,000 prize for the ‘personal and poetic way she extends the language of sculpture’ through found and usually forgotten objects and crafted materials.
Many of her sculptures are based on the flora of Montserrat, the Caribbean island where she was born in 1956: soursop skins and cocoa pods, glazed with the island’s volcanic ash. These vegetable forms suggest life and place, the slow unpeeling and digestion of a lifetime’s memories. […]