2008 Turner Prize - Nominees

Nominees

There were four nominees for the prize:

• Runa Islam - nominated for her solo exhibition Centre of Gravity at the Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen and National Museum of Art, Oslo and the presentation of her work at the Venice Biennale 2007.
  • Bangladesh born, aged 37, trained both at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and the Royal College of Art.
• Mark Leckey - nominated for solo exhibitions Industrial Light & Magic at Le Consortium, Dijon and Resident at the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne.
  • from London, aged 44, currently a film studies professor in Germany at the Städelschule in Frankfurt.
• Goshka Macuga - nominated for the solo exhibition Objects in Relation, Art Now at Tate Britain and her contribution to the 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art.
  • Polish, age 41, describes herself as a "cultural anthropologist".
• Cathy Wilkes - nominated for her solo exhibition at Milton Keynes Gallery.
  • from Glasgow, aged 42.

It was the first time since 1998 that three of the four nominees had been women.

Stephen Deuchar, who chaired the jury, said: "The prize is not there to award the most competent artist at work today, but to draw attention to what the jury considers new developments."