Turner Prize

The four artists competing for this year's Turner Prize have been announced by Tate Britain, showcasing sculpture, film and technical drawing for the British art world's most famous award.

Tracey Emin, famed for art installations featuring tents and an unmade beds, has been made professor of drawing at the Royal Academy. But do modern artists need to be able to draw?

Martin Boyce becomes the third Glasgow artist in succession to triumph at the Turner Prize, as a friend tells Channel 4 News "the first time he tried to get into art school he failed."

As the world's most famous contemporary art prize travels to Gateshead, Channel 4 News Culture Editor Matthew Cain hopes the change of scene will "shake the prize free from history and tradition".

Working in film and video, Hilary Lloyd presents sound and image to the viewer in a way which challenges and undermines viewing conventions, writes Matthew Cain.

Fascinated with psychological vulnerability, Karla Black's innovative sculptural installations are rooted in feminism and combine traditional art-making with modern materials, writes Matthew Cain.

Focusing on the mundane two square miles where he grew up in Coventry, painter George Shaw confronts nostalgia in his work which lies at the edge of tradition, writes Matthew Cain.

Martin Boyce's work creates atmospheric, sculptural art inspired by modernist design history, which it often directly quotes, writes Matthew Cain.