The Turner Prize 2005

The 2005 Turner Prize has been won by Simon Starling. His work involves transforming an object or substance into another. He describes his work as ''the physical manifestation of a thought process...'' In 2004 he crossed the Tabernas desert in Andalucia, Spain on an improvised electric bicycle.The waste product produced by the bicycle was water which he used to paint a watercolour of a cactus for a piece entitled ''Tabernas Desert Run ''. For his Turner Prize exhibit ''Shedboatshed'', Simon Starling dismantled a shed, turned it into a boat and loaded the boat with the remains of the shed. The boat was then paddled down the Rhine to a museum in Basel, dismantled and re-made into a shed. Though I'm not very excited by the work for the Turner Prize for several years now, strangely enough I predicted that Starling would win, leaving a comment to that effect on Art News Blog around October 20th earlier this year. Perhaps it was the bias I that live in Tabernas !! Tags: Turner Prize 2005 + Simon Starling + Tabernas