Elizabeth Price (artist)

Elizabeth Price ( born November 6, 1966 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England) is a British visual artist, video artist and musician. In 2012 she won the Turner Prize for her video art.

Life

Price grew up in Luton, Bedfordshire then on. The mid-1980s she was a member of the indie pop group Talulah Gosh, one of the representatives of the Twee - Pop. There she was guitarist and backing vocalist. She studied drawing at the Ruskin School of Art at Oxford University and completed her studies there with a Bachelor in 1988. In addition, she studied in London at the Royal College of Art, where she graduated in 1981 with a Master of Fine Arts. 1999 doctorate Price at the University of Leeds.

Prizes and awards

• From 2004 to 2006 she was a research fellowship at the London Metropolitan University.
• This was followed by a scholarship for the year 2007, the Stanley Picker Foundation on the London Kingston University.
• In 2012 she won the Turner Prize for a Videoinstallationzum on " consumer culture ", The Woolworths Choir of 1979. The jury based its decision on the fact that Price generating rhythmic experience from the combination of different elements, such as archive pictures, music videos and advertising strategies. Your work get so " seductive (s) and penetrating ( n ) elements."

Exhibitions

• 2001: Cool Green, Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington, Washington DC, USA.
• 2004: Boulder, ball of packing tape from 1996, Jerwood Artists Platform, Jerwood Space, London, England.
• 2007: Local Operations in a joint exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, London.
• 2010: User Group Disco, Pavilion, Leeds and then Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England.
• 2012th Here, BALTIC, Gateshead, England.