Tate Britain has announced shortlisted artists for the Turner Prize 2023, which includes Jesse Darling, Ghislaine Leung, Rory Pilgrim and Barbara Walker.
Jesse Darling’s sculpture and installation works have dealt with the vulnerability of the human body and the precariousness of power structures; he was nominated for his solo exhibitions No Medals, No Ribbons at Modern Art Oxford and Enclosures at London’s Camden Art Centre. Ghislaine Leung’s nominated solo exhibition Fountains at Simian, Copenhagen presents a humorous inquiry into questions about time, leisure and labour. In Rory Pilgrim’s nominated commission RAFTS at Serpentine and Barking Town Hall, and a performance of the work at Cadogan Hall, London, he collaborated with local communities in London to voice the everyday struggle and reality during the pandemic. And Barbara Walker’s presentation Burden of Proof at Sharjah Biennial 15 interrogated the power structures underpinning racial identity and exclusion in the context of the Windrush scandal (in which people in the UK were wrongly detained, denied legal rights or threatened with deportation).
An exhibition featuring their works will be held at Towner Eastbourne, East Sussex, from 28 September 2023 to 14 April 2024. The winner will be announced on 3 December 2023 at the award ceremony in Eastbourne’s Winter Gardens.
