Turner Prize 2005

Winner;
“Shedboatshed” by the fabulous artist Simon Starling
Shedboatshed
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That was about as shocking as it got in a year when the £25,000 prize has generated barely a ripple of controversy. Even a painter, Gillian Carnegie, installed as favourite for the prize by the bookmakers, was included.

The Tate’s selection panel, having scoured the country over the past dozen years to find transvestite potters, dirty beds and sliced cows, was possibly too exhausted to whip up headlines again.

Need we say more? Yes.
Simon dear, there’s more talent in our little fingers. . . .

MSM.