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| Laire Prouvost, Turner Prize 2013 winner |
It was announced on channel 4 last night, live from Londonderry, that French artist Laure Prouvost (b.1978) is this year's Turner Prize winner. Her winning piece Wantee, inspired by a cup of tea, weaves together art history and fiction in video form, taking viewers in search of her fictional grandfather - weird! She describes it as "a conversation about this idea of reality and fiction," intentionally presenting work designed to confuse as she believes misunderstanding makes us use our imagination more.
Beating humorous artist David Shrigley, performance artist Tino Sehgal and painter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye to the £25,000 prize, the latter of which I was gunning for as a painter hasn't won for years.
Previous winners you may have heard of include Damien Hurst and Anthony Gormley.
