The Turner Prize Heads North
Monday 27th September 2010
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The Turner Prize, which is typically held at Tate Britain, has only been hosted outside of London once since it was established in 1984, and that was in 2007 when Tate Liverpool took charge of proceedings. This move to the Baltic however represents a new era for the prize wherein it will be hosted by Tate Britain every other year, with other art establishments filling in the gaps.
The prize, which is awarded every year to "a British artist under fifty, for an outstanding exhibition or presentation of their work in the twelve months preceding", is always a big event in the UK arts calendar and receives attention from around the world. The prize was originally founded in order to draw more public attention to contemporary art and there is the hope that it will be very successful in doing that in the North East.
