“The Turner should be renamed the B&Q diy prize.”

— Charles Thomson (artist)

Dalya Alberge, "One Man and His Boat Sail into a Storm over the Turner" http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1905555,00.html The Times, 2005-12-06.
On the 2005 Turner Prize winner, Simon Starling, who turned a shed into a boat and back into a shed.

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British artist 1953

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“The Turner should be renamed the B&Q diy prize.”

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