Monday, February 4, 2013

Tuner Prize Winner 2012: Elizabeth Price

A surprise winner took home the coveted  Turner Prize for 2012, Elizabeth Price. Becoming the first video artist to win the prize in over a decade with her three part video that focuses first on the make up and history of churches, before moving on to footage of the 1960s band the Shangri-Las then ending with news footage covering the 1979 fire in a Manchester Woolworths that killed 10 people. Her winning piece entitled 'The Woolworths Choir of 1979."










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