Editing Turner Prize (section)

===2008===
{{Main|2008 Turner Prize}}
[[Mark Leckey]] was the winner of the Turner Prize of 2008.

For the second year running, Sir Nicholas Serota did not chair the Turner Prize jury; instead Stephen Deuchar, director of Tate Britain, was the chair. The other members were Jennifer Higgie, editor of ''[[Frieze (magazine)|frieze]]'', Daniel Birnbaum, rector of the [[Städelschule]] international art academy, Frankfurt, architect [[David Adjaye]], and Suzanne Cotter, senior curator, [[Modern Art Oxford]].<ref name=gayford>Gayford, Martin. [https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=atked90EZ9lw&refer=home "Leckey, Wilkes, Islam, Macuga on U.K. Turner Prize Shortlist "] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019212913/http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088 |date=19 October 2008 }}, bloomberg.com, 13 May 2008. Retrieved 14 May 2008.</ref> The prize winner received £25,000 and the other three nominees £5,000 each. In recent years the prize has attracted commercial sponsorship, but did not have any during the 2008 events.<ref name=gayford/> The nominees were [[Runa Islam]], [[Mark Leckey]], [[Goshka Macuga]], and [[Cathy Wilkes]]; the Prize exhibition opened at Tate Britain on 30 September and the winner was announced on 1 December.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080706021217/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article3922864.ece "Tate courts controversy with Turner Prize shortlist"], ''[[The Times]]'', 14 May 2008. Retrieved 14 May 2008.</ref>