Turner Prize nominees announced

Nominees Runa Islam, Mark Leckey, Goshka Macuga and Cathy Wilkes will be judged by leading figures in the art world for the £40,000 Turner Prize; £25,000 for the winner and £5,000 a piece for the runners up.

Their work will be shown in an exhibition at Tate Britain opening on 7 October 2008. The winner will be announced at Tate Britain on 1 December 2008 during a live broadcast by Channel 4.

Runa Islam

Islam is nominated for her solo exhibition Centre of Gravity at Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen and National Museum of Art, Oslo and the presentation of her work at Venice Biennale 2007.

The stills shown here are from her closely choreographed films.

Mark Leckey

Leckey is nominated for solo exhibitions Industrial Light & Magic at Le Consortium, Dijon, and Resident at Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne.

His work combines sculpture, film, sound and performance to comment on contemporary sculpture.

Goshka Macuga

Macuga is nominated for solo exhibition Objects in Relation, Art Now at Tate Britain and her contribution to the 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art.

Her mixed-media installations act as a form of cultural archaeology to create new narratives and associations.

Cathy Wilkes

Wilkes is nominated for her solo exhibition at Milton Keynes Gallery. Through the arrangement of commonplace objects and materials her figurative sculpture touch on issues of femininity and sexualty.

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