This year’s Turner Prize is being replaced by 10 bursaries to help artists through the coronavirus pandemic. The prestigious art award will not be given out in December as planned because of Covid-19.
The jury who would have selected the winner will instead choose artists who will be awarded the £10,000 (€11,250) funding. Alex Farquharson, director of Tate Britain and chairman of the Turner Prize jury, said that measures to deal with coronavirus are “causing huge disruption to the lives and livelihoods of artists”. “The practicalities of organising a Turner Prize exhibition are impossible in the current circumstances, so we have decided to help support even more artists during this exceptionally difficult time.” He added that he thinks JMW