Turner Prize show opens in Glasgow

The 18-strong collective has been nominated for the prestigious art prize for its work at Granby Four Streets in Toxteth, Liverpool where the outfit had worked with local residents to save, revamp and re-imagine a cluster of 1900 terraced houses earmarked for demolition by the council.

An accompanying card described it as “a pint of Tennent’s” by artist Keith Lugton – who is in fact the master brewer at the East End brewery’.

Visitors to the Assemble exhibition can buy the goods on display as the group use the Turner Prize to start a social enterprise and fund further regeneration in Toxteth.

The city that has produced more winners and nominees for the most famous award in contemporary art today hosts the exhibition that paves the way to the prize for the first time. “We wish the Tramway the best of luck with their exhibition”.

The Turner Prize has a reputation for controversy, with previous winners including Martin Creed’s light going on and off and Grayson Perry’s pots tackling subjects like death and child abuse.

Nicole Wermers’s Infrastruktur contains a series of chairs with fur coats stitched on top said to allude to themes of “lifestyle, class, consumption and control”.

Then there’s Camplin’s The Military Industrial Complex.

Her exhibition includes large TVs, books and a photocopier spread across a room with the public encouraged to make copies of books they are interested in.

Her half-hour long sound work, DOUG, for six classically-trained singers, was commissioned by Glasgow-based gallery The Common Guild, and performed at The Mitchell Library in May.

Last year’s accolade was picked up by the relatively unknown Glasgow-based film-maker Duncan Campbell.