Winner;
“Shedboatshed” by carpenter / artist Simon Starling
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That was about as shocking as it got in a year when the £25,000 prize has generated barely a ripple of controversy. Even a painter, Gillian Carnegie, installed as a favourite for the prize by the bookmakers, was included.

The Tate’s selection panel, having scoured the country over the past dozen years to find transvestite potters, dirty beds and sliced cows, was possibly too exhausted to whip up headlines again.

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Definitive expose of the TP, in the year after London Dada’s victory in pressuring the committee into abandoning its 23 year tradition of age discrimination against entrants