Turner Prize Returns To Tate Liverpool After 15 Years

Liverpool is to host the Turner Art Prize for the first time in 15 years.

The renowned event will be held at the Tate Liverpool gallery together with an exhibition exploring connections with Britain’s rural landscapes in 2022.

In 2007, the venue became the first place outside London to present the prize, before it went to other cities including Newcastle, Hull and Margate.

Liverpool Mayor Joanne Anderson said the event would “shine a global spotlight” on the city.

Tate Britain, which has organised the prize since 1984, awards a British artist for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work.

The 2021 Turner Prize nominees are made up of five collectives who have helped to “inspire social change through art”.

High profile winners have previously included Anish Kapoor, Grayson Perry, Damien Hirst and Steve McQueen.

Since Liverpool’s first ceremony in 2007, every other a year a venue outside Tate Britain presents the prize.

Tate Liverpool director Helen Legg said the award had a “transformational impact on the way people understand contemporary art”.

She added it was “wonderful” the award would be held in the gallery.