London - An enormous pair of naked buttocks, chastity belts and a model train sprayed with graffiti... it can only be Turner Prize time again.
Works by the four artists shortlisted for this year’s award have gone on show at Tate Britain and certainly live up to the award’s reputation for controversy.
Anthea Hamilton, from London, has created the 16ft high naked male buttocks, which she calls Project For A Door. The Tate describes her fetishist-inspired art as ‘bringing a surrealist sensibility to popular culture and the mind-bending volume of stylised and sexualised imagery in the digital world’.
Her other pieces in the exhibition include a selection of hanging chastity belts and a brick-patterned suit.
Work by Josephine Pryde, from Alnwick, Northumberland, includes graffiti-tagged model of a Union Pacific freight locomotive, which visitors will be able to ride. One of the pieces by Newcastle artist Michael Dean is a sculpture made from more than two million 1p coins. He says the £20,435.99 they are worth represents the poverty line for a family of two adults and two children. His other works include sculptures made from salvaged metal
Helen Marten, from Macclesfield, Cheshire, creates collage-style sculptures and prints.
The exhibition opens to the public on Tuesday at Tate Britain in London, with the winner of the £25,000 prize announced on live on the BBC on December 5.
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