Turner Prize 1998

Group show at Tate Britain. 1998 - 1999
Date: 28 October, 1998 until 10 January, 1999
Curator: Virginia Button & Michela Parkin
Organiser: Tate

Annual art prize sponsored by Channel 4 who screen the prize ceremony and announcement. Either deemed ‘boring’ or ‘controversial’. This entity again produced a large amount of publicity as the winner, Chris Ofili, was the first painter to win since Howard Hodgkin in 1985, and also the artist at this time used elephant dung in his work - cue lots of puns using ‘dung’.

List of previous winners, up to 1998: 1984 - Malcolm Morley; 1985 - Howard Hodgkin; 1986 - Gilbert and George; 1987 - Richard Deacon; 1988 - Tony Cragg; 1989 - Richard Long; 1990 - Prize suspended; 1991 - Anish Kapoor; 1992 - Grenville Davey; 1993 - Rachel Whiteread; 1994 - Damien Hirst; 1996 - Douglas Gordon; 1997 - Gillian Wearing.

Link to information about 1998 prize: www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/history/1998.shtm

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