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Turner prize 1999

February 2024

  • Steve McQueen, left, with Chiwetel Ejiofor on the set of 12 Years a Slave.

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… director Steve McQueen, a boundary-pushing master

    From his feature debut, Hunger, to his new documentary, Occupied City, the Oscar-winning director and Turner prize winner’s work has been a long, lively conversation between art and film

May 2023

  • Artist Steve McQueen

    Steve McQueen voices ‘dismay’ after MPs snub Grenfell Tower film invitation

    Award-winning British artist says lack of politicians’ response to attend a screening speaks volumes about ‘what is happening in this country’

November 2008

  • Steve McQueen

    The Q&A
    Q&A

    Artist and film-maker Steve McQueen on Miles Davis, the Caribs and the death of his father

October 2000

  • Beauty to make the spirit soar, rubbish to make the heart sink

  • Shock of the old as paint returns to the Turner Prize

December 1999

  • Deadpan McQueen takes the Turner

  • Artist finds poetry in motion

October 1999

  • Satirists jump into Tracey's bed

  • Controversy over bed will not rest

  • Knickers to the critics

  • Tracey's pants but McQueen's the real pyjamas

  • Scandal sheets envelop Turner prize

  • Tracey's pants but McQueen's the real pyjamas

  • Scandal sheets envelop Turner prize

September 1999

  • A rat's-eye view of the Commons

    Jane and Louise Wilson
    Serpentine Gallery, London
    Rating: ****

June 1999

  • Myopic mediocrity

    Tracey Emin's readings of stories and alarming anecdotes are usually good fun. But over the weekend, when the Turner prize nominee gave a performance as part of Camberwell Artsweek, she forgot her spectacles and lost the plot. "Where's me glasses? I can't see and I don't wanna read. The new stuff's too personal, why can't my bloody gallery, bloody White Cube transcribe this stuff and fax me it."

  • Nice little Turner

    All four of the shortlisted for this year's Turner Prize work in film or video - not a single painter among them.

    • Turner prize focus shifts to film

    • Artists in camera for Turner Prize

    • Turner Prize shortlist announced

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