This year's winner will be announced on the same evening as the Turner Prize but Mr Prideaux said: "All six are worthy winners in my eyes." In awarding him the prize the jury admired the poetry and clarity of his vision, the range of his work, its emotional intensity and economy of means. Charlotte Prodger is a British artist and one of turner prize winners. The live show was a fitting complement to Gillian Wearing's Sixty Minutes, Silence, winner of the £20,000 Turner Prize. The most controversial moments in Turner Prize history - The Turner Prize: equal parts respected and notorious. Emin's performance could be called Sixty Minutes, Noise. The winner is announced in December. Her important films include Stoneymollan and Bridgit. The Art Newspaper is the journal of record for the visual arts world, covering international news and events. The winner of the Turner Prize, announced near the end of the year in a televised ceremony, receives £25,000, with the three other short-listed candidates receiving £5,000 each. But the prize has changed since the headline-making days of the mid-1990s. An award for contemporary art is bound to attract controversy, and the Turner Prize has received more than its share of criticism. The prize has been controversial in the past, gaining infamy in the 1990s with nominees and winners including Hirst's cows in formaldehyde, Tracey Emin's unmade bed and Martin Creed's empty room with lights going on and off. Turner Prize 1999 artists: Tracey Emin Tracey Emin was nominated for her exhibitions in New York and Japan in which she continued to show her versatility across a wide range of media, her vibrancy and flair for self-expression. The winner of the Turner Prize, announced near the end of the year in a televised ceremony, … Tate Britain, which has organised the prize since 1984, said it would be impossible to organise the annual nominees' exhibition. The award has also seen some unexpected results: Tracey Emin 's My Bed, was overlooked … The surrounding press coverage dubbed her the "bad girl of British art". The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist.Between 1991 and 2016, only artists under the age of 50 were eligible (this restriction was removed for the 2017 award). The Turner Prize exhibition runs from September 29-January 12 at Turner Contemporary, Margate. The Turner prize - presented to the film-maker Steve McQueen - had attracted controversy long before the coveted prize was awarded. M00585 Damien Hirst (right) at the Tate after receiving the Prize with artists Michael Craig-Martin (left) and Grenville Davey (centre), 1995 Much to everyone's surprise - and the relief of many - Tracey Emin's dishevelled My Bed didn't capture the judges imagination, this time.