Veronica Ryan wins Turner Prize 2022
James Pickford, Financial Times
December 2022
Veronica Ryan, an artist who created the first permanent public artwork to commemorate the Windrush Generation, has won this year’s Turner Prize, the UK’s best-known contemporary art award. Ryan’s sculptures, which use both natural and fabricated objects to explore ideas of displacement, loss and recovery, were singled out by the judges for “the personal and poetic way she extends the language of sculpture.”
Past winners of the £25,000 annual prize, which goes to a British artist or one working primarily in Britain, include Anish Kapoor, Rachel Whiteread and Damien Hirst. The other three nominees on the 2022 shortlist — Heather Phillipson, Sin Wai Kin and Ingrid Pollard — received £10,000 each at the awards ceremony on Wednesday evening. […]