Helen Marten wins Turner Prize

LONDON

Helen Marten has been announced as the winner of the 2016 Turner Prize.

The 31-year old painter and sculptor has received the £25,000 prize at a ceremony held at the Tate Britain gallery in London from writer Ben Okri.

The chair of judges, Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson, said during the ceremony that Marten’s work was impressive.

He said: “The judges were impressed by the complexity of the work, its amazing formal qualities, its disparate materials and techniques and also how it relates to the world... how it often suggests meaning, but those meanings are all in flux somehow. One image, one form becomes another.”

The win comes weeks after Helen was awarded the £30,000 Hepworth Prize for Sculpture.