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Each winner and short-listed artist is represented by a 500-word entry, illustrated with at least one art work. . Webchat 1999 The Turner Prize has been awarded annually, with the exception of 1990, since 1984. Since 1991 it has been given to 'a British artist under 50 for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the twelve months preceding 31st May'. Each year between April and the end of May nominations for the prize are invited from the public.

Summaries In this section Gillian Wearing - Turner Prize winner 1997 Front Page . . The Turner Prize - controversy in artistic form "Controversial" was trotted out in June when the judges picked an all-women shortlist - Christine Borland, Angela Bulloch, Cornelia Parker and Gillian Wearing - in a move seen by many to be "making up" for 1996 when no female artists made the shortlist. That has been denied by Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate Gallery and chairman of the judges, who said the jury had no plans to create an all-women shortlist any more than it had planned an all-men one in 1996. He is backed up by the fact that sculptor Julian Opie declined his nomination this year.

It contains reproductions of Morley's most significant works, a critical essay by Sarah Whitfield, a new and illuminating interview with the artist by art critic Martin Gayford, as well as a chronology of the artist's life and career. .00May 2001 Malcolm Morley, winner of the first Turner Prize in 1984, is an artist whose work resists classification. Credited as the initiator of two significant and very different movements - Photo-Realism in the 1970s, and Neo-Expressionism in the 1980s - Morley's forty-year career has been distinguished by great technical virtuosity and a commitment to pushing painting to its limits. Inspired by film and advertising, by ancient myths and psychoanalysis, by old and modern masters, Morley's imagery is a form of highly-charged drama that has no equivalent in the art of our time. Jean-Claude Lebensztejn is Professor of Art History at the University of Paris I and has written essays, articles and books on art, poetry, linguistics and cinema. . It covers his entire career to date, from his beginnings in England, through his receipt of the Turner Prize in 1984, to his 1999 statement that he was going to repaint all his pictures. Born and trained in Britain but resident in America since 1958, Morley is best known as an exponent of Superrealism, his explorations of which were inspired by printed media. Superrealism represents only one aspect of Morley's career, however.
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