3 h. ago Autistic artist becomes first person with a learning disability to win the Turner Prize

Known for her large-scale abstract drawings and hanging sculptures, Nnena Kalu took home the prize at an award ceremony on Tuesday evening in Bradford, this year's UK City of Culture.

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7 h. ago Nnena Kalu wins the Turner Prize 2025 in ‘seismic’ moment for award

The Glasgow-born, learning-disabled artist joins a prestigious list of recipients including Damien Hirst, Steve McQueen and Grayson Perry

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7 h. ago Nnena Kalu’s embodied, sensuous art makes her a worthy Turner prize winner

The closer you get to Kalu’s endless sinewy trails of old VHS tape, the harder it is to know where their forms stop and the space around them beginsNnena Kalu becomes first artist with a learning disability to win Turner prizeNnena Kalu’s forms come at you with their almost alien unknowable presence. They bulge and bifurcate and multiply. The viewer gets caught up in all the roaring, spilling, snaggling details, and you begin to wonder about your own boundaries, the body’s beginnings and its endings. The closer you get to Kalu’s endless sinewy trails of old VHS tape, their spews of filigree plastic webbing, their bound-up, sometimes cable-tied suturings, the harder it is to know where their forms stop and the space around them begins. Their containment is precarious. So full of life and energy, you think they might burst.Kalu’s art is so embodied, so sensuous, so much a trace of her constant, physical engagement, so much a negotiation between the body that made it and the bodies she...

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7 h. ago Nnena Kalu becomes first artist with a learning disability to win Turner prize

Chair of 2025 judging panel says win ‘begins to erase that border between the neurotypical and neurodiverse artist’Nnena Kalu’s embodied, sensuous art makes her a worthy Turner prize winnerNnena Kalu has won the 2025 Turner prize for her colourful drawings and sculptures made from found fabric and VHS tape, becoming the first artist with a learning disability to take home the £25,000 prize.Alex Farquharson, chair of the jury and director of Tate Britain, said the win by the British-Nigerian represented a watershed moment for the international art world. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Sir Grayson Perry ‘American Dream’ artwork acquired for nation

The print can be seen at the Modern One gallery in Edinburgh.

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4 w. ago Turner Prize 2025 exhibition review: 'four artists who could hardly be more different'

A Turner Prize victory for Glasgow-born Nnena Kalu would be a game-changer for disabled artists, writes Susan Mansfield

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