- Beck's Futures
Beck's Futures was a British art prize founded by
London 'sInstitute of Contemporary Arts and sponsored byBeck's beer given to contemporaryart ists.Prior to the establishment of the prize in 2000, Beck's had sponsored several exhibitions of contemporary art in Britain by providing free beer. Together with
Artangel , they had also commissioned a number of works by artists, includingRachel Whiteread 's "House" and "Water Tower" and pieces byDouglas Gordon andTony Oursler .Although it does not receive as much publicity as the
Turner Prize , the prize fund is larger - in 2003, it was £65,000 to the Turner Prize's £20,000. Of this, £20,000 went to the winner, who also took a share of the £40,000 divided between all the shortlisted artists. The remaining £5,000 was allocated to the Student Prize for Film and Video, with £2,000 of that going to the winner.For the first three years of the prize a call for nominations was made to curators and critics around the UK. This proved controversial as unlike the Turner Prize artists knew they had been nominated even if they did not make the final shortlist. The open call was replaced with an annonymous nominations panel.
Winners
*2000 -
Roderick Buchanan
*2001 -Tim Stoner
*2002 -Toby Paterson
*2003 -Rosalind Nashashibi
*2004 -Saskia Olde Wolbers
*2005 -Christina Mackie
*2006 -Matt Stokes The 2003 prize, presented by
Wim Wenders , was awarded on April 29 at theInstitute of Contemporary Arts . As well as Nashashibi, the shortlisted artists wereBernd Behr ,Nick Crowe ,Alan Currall , Inventory,David Sherry ,Lucy Skaer ,Francis Upritchard andCarey Young . The panel of judges was chaired by the artistMichael Landy , and also included the curatorsRussell Ferguson ,Maria Lind andHans Ulrich Obrist .The 2004 prize was awarded on April 27 to
Saskia Olde Wolbers . The other shortlisted artists wereHaluk Akakçe ,Tonico Lemos Auad ,Simon Bedwell ,Ergin Çavusoglu , Andrew Cross,Susan Philipsz ,Imogen Stidworthy ,Hayley Tompkins andNicoline Van Harskamp .The 2005 prize, presented by Richard Hamilton, was awarded on April 26 to
Christina Mackie . The other shortlisted artists wereLali Chetwynd ,Luke Fowler ,Ryan Gander ,Daria Martin , andDonald Urquhart .The 2006 prize was awarded to
Matt Stokes by a panel made-up ofJake and Dinos Chapman ,Martin Creed ,Cornelia Parker ,Yinka Shonibare andGillian Wearing . There was also a public vote, the outcome of which was added as an extra vote in the judging panels final count. Shortlisted for the prize wereBlood ‘n’ Feathers (Jo Robertson & Lucy Stein,Pablo Bronstein ,Stefan Brüggemann , Richard Hughes,Flávia Müller Medeiros ,Seb Patane ,Olivia Plender ,Simon Popper ,Jamie Shovlin ,Daniel Sinsel ,Matt Stokes ,Sue Tompkins ,Bedwyr Williams . This was to be theBeck's sponsored prize's last year.External links
* [http://www.becksfutures.co.uk/ Home page]
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,931930,00.html A review of the 2003 prize show by Adrian Searle in "The Guardian"]
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