“This display used rarely-seen personal accounts and official records to tell the stories of five intrepid agents whose mission was to find and buy the best of world art and design for the V&A: Henry Cole and Richard Redgrave (Italy), Robert Murdoch Smith (Iran), Caspar Purdon Clarke (Turkey), and Charles Wylde (China).” (from the V&A website)
Turner Prize 2012, Tate Britain, London, 2 October 2012-6 January 2013
Artists:
Spartacus Chetwynd
Luke Fowler
Paul Noble
Elizabeth Price
Jury:
- Andrew Hunt, Director, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea
- Heike Munder, Director, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
- Michael Stanley, Director, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford.
- Mark Sladen, Director, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
- Penelope Curtis, Director, Tate Britain and Chair of the Jury
See here.
