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Lucy Skaer, Solid Ground – Liquid to Solid in 85 years, 2006, Courtesy of the artist and doggerfisher, Edinburgh © Copyright the artist. Photo: Serge Hasenböhler.

Roger Hiorns, Vauxhall, 2003, Courtesy Corvi-Mora, London © Copyright the artist. Photo: Tate Photography, David Lambert/Rod Tidman.

Enrico David, Bulbous Marauder, 2008, Courtesy Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Köln/Berlin © Copyright the artist.

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Turner Prize 2009 shortlist
October 6, 2009-
January 16, 2010

Four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2009 are included in the Turner Prize 2009 exhibition. The artists are Enrico David, Roger Hiorns, Lucy Skaer and Richard Wright.

Enrico David
Enrico David has been nominated for his solo exhibitions How Do You Love Dzzzzt By Mammy? at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, and •Bulbous Marauder• at the Seattle Art Museum. Enrico David is a contemporary surrealist who creates rich and profoundly original painting, drawing and sculpture which are disconcerting, confrontational and beautiful.

Roger Hiorns
For his solo exhibitions •Seizure•, Artangel commission, Harper Road, London and at Corvi Mora, London. Hiorns creates arresting sculpture and installation combining unusual materials. His exploration of chemical processes took spectacular effect in Seizure, in which a derelict flat in South London was transformed into a magical cave of blue crystals.

Lucy Skaer
For her solo exhibition at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh and •A Boat Used as a Vessel• at the Kunsthalle Basel. Skaer makes drawings, sculptures and films which often take found photographic sources as their starting point. Rooted in reality, yet subjected to a process of elaborate transformation, Skaer's images hover in the space between recognition and ambiguity, figuration and abstraction.

Richard Wright
For the work he exhibited in the 55th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh and his exhibition at the Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh. Wright creates subtle and exquisite wall paintings that respond directly to the architecture in which they are created. Often awkwardly placed in discreet locations, they combine graphic imagery and intricate patterning from sources as varied as Medieval painting, graphics and typography.

The Turner Prize award is £40,000 with £25,000 going to the winner and £5,000 each for the other shortlisted artists. The Prize, established in 1984, is awarded to a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the twelve months preceding 21 April 2009. It is intended to promote public discussion of new developments in contemporary British art and is widely recognised as one of the most important and prestigious awards for the visual arts in Europe.

The winner of the 2009 Turner Prize will be announced at Tate Britain on 7 December 2009 during a live broadcast by Channel 4.

Members of the Turner Prize 2009 jury are: Charles Esche, Director Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Mariella Frostrup, writer and broadcaster; Jonathan Jones, art critic, The Guardian; Dr Andrea Schlieker, Director Folkestone Triennial, and curator; and Stephen Deuchar, Director, Tate Britain and Chair of the Jury.

Richard Wright, No Title 2007, Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery, London/New York, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow, and BQ, Berlin © Copyright the artist.