Turner Prize nominee profiles

Zarina Bhimji

Born: 1963, Uganda

Educated: Goldsmiths and Slade School of Fine Art

Lives: London

Typical work: photographs which "capture human traces in landscape and architecture"

Nominated for: exhibitions at Haunch Venison, London and Zurich.

Nathan Coley

Born: 1967, Glasgow

Educated: Glasgow school of Art

Lives: Glasgow


Typical work: installations made from a variety of media.

Nominated for: exhibition at Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, public installation Camouflage Church, Santiago de Compostela, Spain and contributing to group exhibition Breaking Step - Displacement, Compassion and humour in Recent British Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia.

Mike Nelson

Born: 1967, Loughborough

Educated: Reading University and Chelsea College of Art and Design

Lives: London

Typical work: Nelson uses entrances, exits and doorways to create "metaphoric connotations", for example sand reflected through kaleidoscope-style mirrors creating an infinite world viewed through a hole in the wall.

Nominated for: exhibitions AMNESIAC SHRINE or Double coop displacement, Matt's Gallery, London and Mirror Infill (2006), Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair, London.

Mark Wallinger

Born: 1959, Chigwell

Educated: Chelsea School of Art and Goldsmiths

Lives: London

Typical work: Wallinger deals with expansive themes through various mediums, for example the nature of perception is explored through a live performance in which the artist dresses in a bear suit and occupies a museum in Berlin for ten nights.

Nominated for: exhibition StateBritain at Tate Britain

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