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Exploding garden sheds, dead animals and piles of rice. Crude oil, hospital doors, the London tube map, a single light bulb. All of these, on the face of it, have nothing to do with art, and certainly nothing to do with the great 19th-century British landscape painter, Joseph Mallord William Turner.
But, actually, these have all been exhibits in the Turner Prize, the annual British art prize organised by the Tate Britain gallery in London. It's an award which over the past 20 years has caused media outrage, government pique, artist disaffection and art-critic apoplexy. On the whole, it has been rather successful.
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