Viewpoint: Lucy Skaer
October 27, 2009
Lucy Skaer
She 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.
Turner Prize 2009 exhibition is at Tate Britain 6 October 2009 to 3 January 2010. The winner of the 2009 Turner Prize will be announced at Tate Britain on 7 December 2009.
The four artists nominated for Turner Prize 2009 are Enrico David, Roger Hiorns, Lucy Skaer and Richard Wright. (More info here.)
(Images via TATE Britain and doggerfisher: Contemporary art gallery in Edinburgh)
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