The much awaited Turner prize was announced and to the surprise of the audience, it went to French born, UK based artist Laure Prouvost. Actress Saoirse Ronan was the one to give the prize in a ceremony in Londonderry, which is the UK City of Culture 2013.

“I’m not ready, I didn’t expect it at all,” she said.

“Four incredible artists here with me and the show. I thought ‘It can’t be me,’ – I was sure it was not me. So thank you everybody.”

Laure Prouvost is known for films and installations characterised by richly layered stories, translation, and surreal moments. Her seductive and disorienting tales toy with the audience’s ability to become fully absorbed by a single narrative. Her unconventional approach to text, montage, cinematic conventions, and imagery create a distinct visual language that is engaged in an ongoing conversation with the history of art and literature.

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The other artists were David Shrigley, Lynette Yiadom-Boaky and Tino Sehgal.
During the last decade, Tino Sehgal has become well-known for artworks that primarily exist as live encounters between people. These artworks often directly respond to, and engage with, gallery visitors, and Sehgal refrains from the production or presentation of any actual objects. Educated in both political economics and choreography, his works are marked by critical reflection and intimacy, fusing physical movement with philosophical debate.

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David Shrigley is best known for his simple and direct drawings and animations that make satirical comments on everyday situations and human interactions. His work, which spans the last twenty years, holds significant public appeal and reveal the artist’s black humour, macabre intelligence and infinite jest . Since the early nineties, Shrigley has also produced a continuous flow of artist’s books. Whilst drawing is at the centre of his practice the artist also works with photography, sculpture, animation, painting. Shrigley regularly has his cartoons published in publications such as The Guardian and New Statesman.

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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is a painter, poet and writer and is best known for her large-scale figurative paintings of subjects that she constructs from a combination of memory, imagination, drawing and scrapbooks. She alludes to the history of European painting in her work and represents the full spectrum of portraiture’s scale: from small and intensely intimate close-ups to large canvases with the proportions, balance and impact characteristic of history painting. She challenges the accepted norm of western figuration by depicting black subjects, and at the same time commits herself to the marginalised practice of portraiture within contemporary painting.

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