The Turner Prize | Tate

The prize was first awarded in 1984. It was founded by a group called the Patrons of New Art under the directorship of Alan Bowness. They formed to encourage wider interest in contemporary art and assist Tate in acquiring new works. They felt that Britain should have its own award for visual arts, an equivalent to the Booker Prize. Explore the Turner Prize 2025 #### It's given to 'a British Artist' [...] The nineteenth-century artist J.M.W. Turner was a figure who had been innovative and controversial in his own day. One critic commented that his work Schloss Rosenau was 'the product of a diseased eye and a reckless hand.' Today he is considered to be one of the greatest British artists. Turner had wanted to establish a prize for young artists himself. #### The prize has no age limit [...] One of the best-known prizes for visual art is back in Liverpool Tate Liverpool + RIBA North 20 Oct 2022 – 19 Mar 2023 Exhibition PAST EVENT ## Turner Prize 2021 One of the best-known prizes for visual arts comes to Herbert Art Gallery and Museum Herbert Art Gallery and Museum 29 Sep 2021 – 12 Jan 2022 Exhibition PAST EVENT ## Turner Prize 2020 The prestigious prize for contemporary art returns to Tate Britain Tate Britain