- Simon Starling
Simon Starling (born
1967 inEpsom ,Surrey ) is an Englishconceptual artist and was the winner of the2005 Turner Prize .He studied photography at Trent Polytechnic Nottingham and then attended
Glasgow School of Art .The idea of efficiency is a theme that informs much of his work, including "Tabernas Desert Run" (2004), featuring a bicycle fuelled by hydrogen and oxygen that he rode 66 kilometres across Spain's
Tabernas Desert . The only waste product was water, which he then used to paint a watercolour of a cactus that he had seen on his trip."Tabernas Desert Run" was one of his Turner Prize show exhibits, but the piece which attracted most media attention was titled "Shedboatshed", and consisted of a wooden shed, which he had at one time dismantled, converted into a boat (in which he had sailed down the
River Rhine ) and then turned back into the original shed inBasel ,Switzerland ."
The Times " quoted Charles Thomson, leader of the anti-conceptual art Stuckists: "The Turner should be renamed theB&Q diy prize." [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1905555,00.html "One Man and His Boat Sail into a Storm over the Turner", The Times, December 6, 2006] Retrieved March 28, 2006] Subsequently two other newspapers took up this idea, buying a shed from B&Q, and turning it into a boat.As of 2005 , Starling lives and works in Berlin and Glasgow.ee also
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Turner Prize
*Conceptual art Links
* [http://www.themoderninstitute.com/artists/s_starling/index.php The Modern Institute: Simon Starling]
* [http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/2005/simonstarling.htm Turner Prize 2005: Simon Starling]
* [http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_work_md_210_1.html Guggenheim: Simon Starling]
* [http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1660635,00.html Guardian interview (12/2005)]
* [http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/simon_starling1/ frieze review (10/2005)]References
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