Lessons We Can Learn From the Turner Prize

Ever since its foundation in 1984, the Turner Prize, named after prolific painter JMW Turner, has been uniquely placed in the British art industry; it straddles respect and derision with a charismatic nonchalance, one foot in the aristocracy and the other in the dirt – making it slightly idiosyncratic in its approach and all the more fascinating for it. Every year it is awarded to a British artist under 50 years old for an outstanding exhibition of their work in the previous…