
The Turnip Prize: Spoof art award finalists shortlisted
7 December 2015
From the section Somerset
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Trevor Prideaux
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Imogen Crees submitted “A Roll in the Hay”
The winner of an art prize which rewards competitors for taking “the least amount of effort possible” is to be crowned later.
A bread roll nestled in hay and a galvanized staple on a paper plate are two of the entries shortlisted for this year’s Turnip Prize.
The competition satirises the Tate Gallery’s Turner Prize by rewarding deliberately bad modern art.
A turnip nailed to a block of wood is given to the winner.
Organiser Trevor Prideaux said this year’s entries were of “the …read more
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