In these videos for Channel 4, the shortlisted artists talk through their work and the ideas and thought processes behind it.
Hilary Lloyd
Yorkshire-born Hilary Lloyd originally studied in Newcastle - the city that will play host to this year's exhibition. Her nominated work presents image and sound underminds viewing conventions, at first appearing to fetishize a male underwear models before abstracting the image, removing it from the glossy advertising mould so often projected in modern society.
Hilary Lloyd on the Channel 4 News website
George Shaw
George Shaw's Turner nominated collection, The Sly and Unseen Day orginally displayed on the site of the Turner 2011 exhibition, the Baltic. His work, painted entirely in Humbrol enamel, looks at his birthplace in Coventry, focusing on the everyday mundane scenes lived daily on the local Tile Hill council estate and the personification of the objects we encounter - what will we leave behind us when we have moved on?
George Shaw on the Channel 4 News website
Karla Black
Innovative sculptor Karla Black creates installations that combine well-established art materials such as paper, glass and wood with every day domestic essentials such as cellophane, medicines and toiletries. Her work is as much about evoking a sense of emotion, exploring how we communicate and think as well as tranforming a space with a physical creation.
Karla Black on the Channel 4 News website
Martin Boyce
Martin Boyce's sculptural art is inspired by modernist design history, and has been noted for evoking a sense of melancholy and detachment in its audience. Boyce himself described the work as 'a peculiar landscape: a collapse of the interior and the exterior world'.
