Editing Turner Prize (section)

===2007===
{{Main|2007 Turner Prize}}
The winner of the £25,000 Prize was [[Mark Wallinger]].<ref name=higgins2007>Higgins, Charlotte. [http://arts.guardian.co.uk/turnerprize2007/story/0,,2221321,00.html "Bear man walks away with Turner Prize"], ''[[The Guardian]]'', 3 December 2007. Retrieved 3 December 2007.</ref> His display at the Turner Prize show was ''Sleeper'', a film of him dressed in a bear costume wandering around an empty museum, but the prize was officially given for ''[[State Britain]]'', which recreated all the objects in [[Brian Haw]]'s anti-war display in [[Parliament Square]], London.<ref name=higgins2007/> The judges commended Wallinger's work for its "immediacy, visceral intensity and historic importance", and called it "a bold political statement with art's ability to articulate fundamental human truths."<ref name=higgins2007/> The prize was presented by [[Dennis Hopper]].<ref name=higgins2007/>

For the first time in its 23-year history, the Turner Prize was held outside London, in [[Tate Liverpool]] (in support of [[Liverpool]] being the [[European Capital of Culture]] in 2008), following a suggestion by gallery worker Jason Richardson. Concurrently there was an exhibition of previous winners at Tate Britain in London.

Unlike recent years, Sir [[Nicholas Serota]] was not the jury chairman; instead, the chairman was Christoph Grunenberg, the Director of Tate Liverpool. The panel was:<ref name=turnerprize07tate>[http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhibitions/turnerprize2007/default.shtm "Turner Prize 07"]. tate.org. Retrieved 21 May 2007</ref>
:Fiona Bradley, Director of the [[Fruitmarket Gallery]], Edinburgh
:[[Michael Bracewell (writer)|Michael Bracewell]], critic and writer
:Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of the [[Studio Museum]], Harlem
:[[Miranda Sawyer]], writer and broadcaster
:Christoph Grunenberg, Director of Tate Liverpool (Chairman of the Jury)

The nominees were:<ref>{{cite news|last=Reynolds |first=Nigel |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/08/nturner108.xml |title=Iraq protest camp shortlisted for Turner Prize |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=10 May 2007 |access-date=21 May 2007 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070508194637/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2007%2F05%2F08%2Fnturner108.xml |archive-date=8 May 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
:[[Mark Wallinger]] for his Tate Britain installation, ''[[State Britain]]''
:[[Nathan Coley]], a Glasgow artist, who makes installations based on buildings
:[[Zarina Bhimji]], a Ugandan Asian photographer and filmmaker
:[[Mike Nelson (artist)|Mike Nelson]], an installation artist

Nelson and Wallinger had both previously been nominated for the prize.

The [[Stuckism|Stuckists]] announced that they were not [[Stuckist demonstrations|demonstrating]] for the first time since 2000,<ref>Reynolds, Nigel. [https://web.archive.org/web/20071205084919/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=%2Farts%2F2007%2F12%2F03%2Fbaturner104.xml "Mark Wallinger wins 2007 Turner Prize"], ''[[Daily Telegraph]]'', 3 December 2007. Retrieved 4 December 2007.</ref> because of "the lameness of this year's show, which does not merit the accolade of the traditional demo".<ref>[http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/stuckists-turner-prize-protest-apology-2/ "Stuckists' Turner Prize Protest Apology"], [[3:AM Magazine]], 2 December 2007. Retrieved 3 December 2007.</ref> Instead, art group AAS re-enacted previous Stuckist demonstrations in protest against their own practice at the Royal Standard Turner Prize Extravaganza.<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUQbQICP960| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130708095829/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUQbQICP960| archive-date=2013-07-08 | url-status=dead|title=I am The Great Grock|date=5 December 2007|work=YouTube}}</ref>