Who will win the Turner Prize 2024?

Named after the radical painter JMW Turner, the Turner Prize was first awarded in 1984. Each year, it is given to a British artist who has created an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work. Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson, Jasleen Kaur and Delaine Le Bas are nominated and I’m clearly between two:

1. Jasleen Kaur’s installation Alter Altar explores cultural memory and political belonging through everyday objects, symbols and images while it resonates with family and community in an intimate way that it meets wider sociopolitical structures. The music resonates around the space until you approach the car playing Sufi music and popular tracks. A sort of worshipped place moving towards the out world.

2. Delaine Le Bas creates such an immersive experience that creates a psychic landscape from chaos to reflection to transformation. Using a variety of materials and Le Bas classics punk gipsy style, Le Bas creates different doorways to reflect about when we are in a dark place in our life but then we can come out of it.

Don’t get me wrong, the other two artists are amazing but the work is displayed in a more traditional way so the impact resides in the quality of the work which is good too.

With Pio, his exhibition was outstanding at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford where he challenged objects from the Ashmolean and British museum that were colonised by the British from the Philippines. So, without those objects, without that visual dialogue, the juxtaposition, the experience and display it loses impact.

Claudette has her work all over London, positioning the marginalisation of Black people in Western history, opening the dialogue and positioning the Black identity within public spaces, the society, our everyday lives. That’s more impactful to me.

Who do you think will win?