Veronica Ryan named as Turner Prize winner in Liverpool ceremony
Prestigious art prize announced by singer and artist Holly Johnson at St George's Hall
Last updated 7th Dec 2022
The most prestigious prize in the art world has been handed out at St George's Hall in Liverpool.
Bristol-based Artist Veronica Ryan claimed the prize ahead of three other artists - for her work which "makes enquiries into perception and spectrums of pathologies, personal narratives, history, as well as the wider psychological implications of the Covid pandemic".
She also takes home a cash prize of £25,000.
The Turner Prize 2022 exhibition is on display at Tate Liverpool and it's the first time the show's been in the city since 2008's Capital of Culture year.
The prize itself was announced by Frankie Goes to Hollywood frontman Holly Johnson in a televised event from St George's Hall.
The winner's name was also projected on to the iconic St John's Beacon, also known as the Radio City Tower.
Who was in the running this year?
The prize returned to Liverpool for the first time in 15 years.
In the running this year were artists Heather Phillipson, Ingrid Pollard, eventual winner Veronica Ryan and Sin Wai Kin.
Sin Wai Kin - finalist
Sin Wai Kin is 31 and lives and works in London.
Their work "brings fantasy to life through storytelling in performance, moving image and ephemera"
Heather Phillipson - finalist
Heather Phillipson also lives and works in London.
The artist "conjures 'a maladapted ecosystem, an insistent atmosphere' charged with colour, video and kinetic sculpture, and augmented with a brand new audio composition"
Ingrid Pollard - finalist
Ingrid was born in Georgetown, Guyana. She now lives and works in Northumberland.
Pollard "presents Seventeen of Sixty Eight 2018, developed from decades of research into racist depictions of 'the African' on pub signs, ephemeral objects, within literature and in surrounding landscapes"
Veronica Ryan - WINNER
Veronica Ryan was born in Montserrat in 1956. She lives between New York and Bristol.
Veronica "presents cast forms in clay and bronze; sewn and tea-stained fabrics; and bright neon crocheted fishing line pouches filled with a variety of seeds, fruit stones and skins to reference displacement fragmentation and alienation"
You can see the exhibitions for yourself at Tate Liverpool until March 2023