Breaking down this year's politically-charged Turner Prize nominees
Like the Man Booker Prize is to literature and the RIBA Stirling Prize is to architecture, the Turner Prize is not just one of the world's most renowned awards for contemporary art, but a useful indicator for the most pertinent socio-cultural preoccupations existing in today's globalised world. Officially, the Turner Prize aims to promote public debate around new developments in contemporary British art. Established in 1984, it is awarded to a British artist for an outstandin
INTERVIEW: Maxine Attard discusses process, perception, and authenticity in contemporary art-making
Maxine Attard is a contemporary visual artist who lives and works in Malta, Europe. She began her voyage into the art world at age eighteen with her trajectory distinctly clouded by youthful uncertainty. At the time (2008) Malta's only university offered no degree in Fine Arts, and the alternative degree programmes which now exist on the islands had not yet been conceived. Attard instead studied art history and archaeology, and generally focused on discovering what felt right
