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Turner prize 2005

December 2005

  • Art or craft?

    Guy Dammann
  • 'I got a lovely poem from a lady in St Albans about sheds'

  • A shaggy-dog story of success

  • It's a shed, it's collapsible, it floats and (with help from a bike) it's the winner

  • Culture minister wrestles words

    As David Lammy prepared to ink his views about this year's Turner prize on to a comments board, the ghost of the unfortunate incident of the "cold, mechanical, conceptual bullshit" hovered.
  • Darren Almond

  • Jim Lambie

  • Gillian Carnegie

  • Simon Starling

October 2005

  • Where's the big idea?

    Art: The Turner Prize puts a high price on 'concept' but few would give a penny for these thoughts, says Rachel Cooke.

  • Simon Jenkins

    Skip the secular rituals of the Turner prize for a real radical

    Simon Jenkins

    Simon Jenkins: The British Museum's exhibition of the painter Samuel Palmer is an exhilarating vision of archaic beauty.

    • The house that Simon built (after sailing it a few miles down the Rhine)

    • When a shed is not a shed

      Zoe Williams
    • It's Turner time again

June 2005

  • Memories, mopeds and a brush with oils

  • Turner prize surprise: painter is favourite

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