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Turner Prize 2023

Four very different artists are contending for this year’s prize – Jesse Darling, Ghislaine Leung, Rory Pilgrim and Barbara Walker – with subjects including the Windrush scandal, our dysfunctional world and mental healthcare
Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks

This thoughtful and comprehensive retrospective spans more than 30 years of Wearing’s work, in which she explores the nature of identity and self and the masks – literal and metaphorical – behind which we hide
Lubaina Himid

This is the Turner-prize winner’s largest solo show to date and it does not disappoint
Karla Black – interview: ‘I don’t see culture and nature as separate things. There’s just a huge pretend around them’

Karla Black, whose sculptures are now on show at the Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, talks about the power of colour, the seduction of cosmetics and the delicious disruption of institutional space through her chaotic, celebratory material explorations
Helen Cammock – interview: ‘Creativity requires a space of idleness, of being still’

Last year’s Turner Prize-winner talks about the inspiration behind her latest film and text installation, different understandings of idleness, the role that writing plays in her practice and how her time as a social worker feeds into her art
Lubaina Himid – interview: ‘It is my intention to create artworks that examine ideas about how to invent new rules by which to live’

Lubaina Himid’s first solo exhibition in the US opens this week, debuting works that continue her longstanding project on identity, representation and survival. She talks here about this new work and her pioneering role in the 1980s in the British…
Goldsmiths Centre For Contemporary Art

The Turner Prize-winning architectural collective Assemble has transformed an old bathhouse into a contemporary arts centre that is idiosyncratic and joyful
Mark Wallinger: ‘I’m reversing what happens at Madame Tussauds’

The Human Figure in Space returns this Turner Prize-winning British artist to his longstanding interest in the photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Here, Wallinger reflects on spectatorship and the mirrored world
Simon Patterson: ‘It’s about you filling in the gaps … the viewer completes the work and keeps changing it’

Simon Patterson talks about his show Safari: An Exhibition as Expedition, at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, and about the concepts that inform his work
Anthea Hamilton: ‘There is something quite liberating about knowing that you can’t always resolve things because it gives you the freedom to go for it’

The Turner Prize-nominated artist talks about her experience of reimagining the Kettle’s Yard collection at the University of Cambridge in a contemporary and collaborative fashion