Article relating to an exhibition, 1998
Published by: The Guardian
Year published: 1998
Number of pages: 1

Original clipping from broadsheet newspaper/almost full page, monochrome text and image on newsprint/article relating to the winner of the Turner Prize competition with a smaller review of the work that won underneath.

Title: At last, a painter wins - with a little help from elephant dung and glitter
Author:Dan Glaister, Arts correspondent
(Review written by Adrian Searle)
Source: The Guardian, Wednesday 2 December, 1998 - News section, pp.3
Article contains two images, one is a large photograph of the artist, Chris Ofili, standing in front of one of his large canvases with the following caption: “The boy dung good, Turner Prize judges praised the orginality, energy and complexity of Chris Ofili’s painting”. The second is a smailler close up of one of his canvas with the following caption: “No Woman No Cry, Ofili’s tribute to Doreen Lawrence.”

Article hails Chris Ofili’s success at the Turner Prize as breaking ‘conceptual art’s hold on the Turner Prize’. His work was praised by the judge’s for it’s “multilayered references to contemporary urban culture and awareness of the history of art.”In the review section Adrian Searle is full of praise for the artist: “Chris Ofili has proved popular with a black audience which, it is often assumed, feels alienated by contemporary art. Ofili is truly popular and also highly respected, among artists.”