Veronica Ryan’s win is also a victory for the Turner Prize’s credibility
Mark Hudson, The Independent
December 2022
Anyone remember the glory days of the Turner Prize? When every cabbie had an opinion on who should win Britain’s best-known and most “controversial” art award? When the term “Turner Prize art” came to denote a whole swathe of “pretentious” cutting-edge art, which evoked a curious mixture of derision and pride in the public at large?
If there was a World Cup for wacky modern stuff, Turner Prize art with its dead sharks and lights going on and off meant that good old Blighty would be in the final at the very least. And we do like a competition, don’t we? That all feels a lifetime ago, in the light of today’s award to Veronica Ryan, in a competition that seemed to offer no obvious winner. […]