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Agence France-Presse

An openly gay Scottish artist who celebrated queer lives in a short film shot on an iPhone won Britain’s prestigious Turner Prize Tuesday.
This year’s four finalists for one of the world’s most coveted visual arts awards featured works packed with political punch.

Charlotte Prodger, BRIDGIT, 2016 - excerpt from Film London on Vimeo.

Scotland’s Charlotte Prodger came out on top at a glitzy reception at London’s Tate Museum for a 33-minute visual compilation called BRIDGIT.
The jury said Prodger’s work “meanders through disparate associations ranging from JD Sports and standing stones to 1970s lesbian separatism and Jimi Hendrix’s sound recordist.
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“Her work explores issues surrounding queer identity, landscape, language technology and time.”
The 44-year-old Glasgow-based artist – dressed in a simple white T-shirt for the glitzy occasion – said she felt “quite overwhelmed”.

“The stories that I am telling, although they are mine and are personal, are stories that a lot of people – well, I guess queer people – have experienced,” she told the BBC after picking up her £25,000 (US$32,000) prize.
Prodger had been working in relative anonymity for 20 years before making her breakthrough by being picked to represent Scotland at this year’s Venice Biennale arts exhibition.
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“I guess my work is quite personal, and it’s becoming increasingly personal actually as time goes by, especially since I started making single-channel videos in the dark,” she told the BBC.
“I guess that became more personal. Maybe that resonates with people.”
Prodger beat out three other works shaped by an increasingly turbulent global political environment.


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New Zealander Luke Willis Thompson made a black-and-white silent film portrait of a woman who live-streamed the immediate aftermath of her African American boyfriend’s death after being pulled over by the police in the United States.
And Britain’s Naeem Mohaiemen’s selected films and installations explored the legacies of colonialism after World War II.


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Scottish artist Charlotte Prodger wins coveted Turner Prize, for short movie shot on an iPhone

Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2018 Turner Prize award winner artist Charlotte Prodger and Tate Director Maria Balshaw pose during a photocall at Tate Britain in London on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters

Artist Lubaina Himid becomes oldest winner of Britain’s controversial Turner Prize

Winner of the 2017 Turner Prize Lubaina Himid poses with one of her works at the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull, Britain, on Tuesday. Photo: AP

(FILES) This file photo taken on September 25, 2017 shows a detail of artwork by Lubaina Himid entitled 'A Fashionable Marriage', which features images of former British Prime Minster Margaret Thatcher, and forms part of her submission for the Turner Prize 2017 in the Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston upon Hull, northern England. Lubaina Himid was announced as the winner of the 2017 Turner Prize on Tuesday, December 5, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / OLI SCARFF / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION

DJ Goldie, centre and Maria Jane Balshaw Director of the Tate applaud artist Lubaina Himid, left, after she was awarded the Turner Prize 2017, the leading international award for contemporary art, at Hull Minster, in Hull, England, Tuesday Dec. 5, 2017. Zanzibar-born artist Himid won the prestigious prize for artworks that tackle the legacy of colonialism and celebrate the people of the African diaspora. (Danny Lawson/PA via AP)

This street in Liverpool is officially an important work of art, winner of  the prestigious Turner Prize

Cairns Street in Toxteth, Liverpool. Assemble, a London-based collective of architects, designers and artists aged 30 and under, have been nominated for a Turner Prize for their work improving four streets, including Cairns St, in the Granby Four Streets area. Houses in Toxteth have recently been sold off for £1 by the council.

The Assemble, winners of the Turner Prize celebrate at The Tramway in Glasgow, Scotland, December 7, 2015. The Assemble architectural and design collective that helped renovate a rundown area of Liverpool to try to stem the tide of gentrification won Britain's Turner Prize for contemporary art on Monday. The prize, established in 1984 and run in partnership with the Tate museums, carries a 25,000-pound ($37,660) cash award. In the past, it has gone mostly to visual and conceptual artists such as Anthony Gormley, Anish Kapoor and Damien Hirst. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne

(FILES) -- A file photo taken on September 30, 2015, shows a visitor looks through "A Showroom for Granby Workshop" by artist collective "Assemble" during a photo call for the 2015 Turner Prize short list nominations announcement at The Tramway art space in Glasgow, Scotland. Architectural collective Assemble has won the 2015 Turner Prize for contemporary visual art, the competition's organisers said on December 7, 2015. AFP PHOTO / ANDY BUCHANAN RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE, MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION, TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION

(FILES) -- A file photo taken on July 3, 2015, shows builders as they take a break outside one of the houses designed by "Assemble," which have been nominated for the 2015 Turner Prize, in Cairns Street, part of the Granby Four Streets area in Liverpool, north west England.In Liverpool's Granby neighborhood, proud residents and a group of architects have brought back to life the area's four remaining Victorian streets, earning them a nomination for Britain's prestigious Turner Prize for contemporary art. Architectural collective Assemble has won the 2015 Turner Prize for contemporary visual art, the competition's organisers said on December 7, 2015. AFP PHOTO / PAUL ELLIS

Cairns Street in Toxteth, Liverpool, part of the Turner Prize winning redevelopment project by the architectural collective Assemble. Photo: The Guardian

The architecture collective Assemble, at work in Toxteth. Photo: Assemble

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The artist Duncan Campbell said winning Britain's Turner Prize for It For Others was a "validation" of his work. Photo: Reuters

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Charlotte Prodger’s film ‘BRIDGIT’, which explores queer identity, triumphed over other nominees with strong political messages


Charlotte Prodger’s film “BRIDGIT”, which explores queer identity, triumphed over other nominees with strong political messages


Scottish artist Charlotte Prodger wins coveted Turner Prize, for short movie shot on an iPhone

.css-1mniedq{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;}Charlotte Prodger’s film ‘BRIDGIT’, which explores queer identity, triumphed over other nominees with strong political messages

Charlotte Prodger’s film ‘BRIDGIT’, which explores queer identity, triumphed over other nominees with strong political messages