", The biographical essay in the Tate booklet, accompanying the. “She has a really good sense of humour and a kind of playfulness and an idea of the absurd. Everything, as she puts it, "is murderously plotted." Yet Marten has used the awards podium to express her disdain for the overprivileged, “hermetic bubble” of the industry that has just spent the year embracing her. “Everyone in this room is operating in this world that is so fucking privileged,” she told the audience gathered at the Tate for the Turner prize ceremony on Tuesday. "I have the linguistic brain," explains Marten. This year’s Turner Prize is awarded on 5 December 2016 and an announcement broadcast on the BBC. Marten clearly resents the crude suggestion that she's just a collector of bric-a-brac. This year has seen Marten rapidly elevated into the uppermost echelons of the art world. In retrospect, the signs were all there. told the audience gathered at the Tate for the Turner prize ceremony on Tuesday. Helen Marten’s work on display at Tate Britain. She said she had been struck from the off by how ambitious and confident Marten’s work was for such a young artist. Since she graduated from Oxford’s Ruskin school of art in 2008, the momentum behind Marten has been remarkable. She announced that she would share the £30,000 ($38,000) prize with her fellow nominees -- she felt that art prizes were flawed to some extent. She will be receiving a further £25,000 ($31,800) for her Turner Prize win. In 2016 she was awarded the Tate Turner Prize. Her starting point, however, is nearly always books – a nod to her first love at school, English literature. “I remember she came into the gallery, this tiny blond pixie, and even though she was nervous she was so articulate in how she was able to talk about her work. Turner prize 2016; Helen Marten/Marc Camille Chaimowicz – review Tate Britain; Serpentine Galleries, London The restless variety of this year’s Turner prize … The poetry of Marten’s work reminded him of Emily Dickinson, he said, adding: “It’s a lot of small, fragmented erotic experiences that are somehow stitched and held together, right on the edge of falling apart – and then it doesn’t.”. “I care so much that sometimes it’s really crippling,” she said recently. Both her parents are scientists (a chemist and a biologist) and she has a twin sister. In the last few weeks, it began to seem somehow inevitable, as predictable as Damien Hirst winning in 1995 or Mark Wallinger in 2007. We are meant to be intrigued and a little (if not greatly) puzzled. The photographer Charlie Engman, who was studying at Ruskin alongside Marten, recalls her working so hard during her final show that she was taken to hospital for exhaustion. “I might sometimes leave very late and there she would still be, doing something nuts but getting away with it. Making a mould where I would go: ‘You’ll never get that off.’ And then I’d be on the motorway and get a text from her saying: ‘It’s out!’”, Wentworth included Marten in a group show at the Lisson Gallery in 2009 and wrote a piece for the Observer in 2010 touting her as an artist to watch. ", The work is full of visual riddles. Her father was a pharmaceuticals industry chemist and her mother was a biologist with a degree in psychology and a PhD in the semiotics of racism. Simon Wallis, the director of the Hepworth Wakefield, who judged both the Hepworth and Turner prizes, said the panels on both had been struck by “the amount of control that she is able to bring to bear on a vast array of material”. Helen Marten is represented by galleries in London, New York, Berlin and Rome. There is nothing random about it. “I do remember she would work herself very hard,” said Engman. Her triumph tonight will introduce her to a much wider audience. Marten works with a team of metalworkers, fabricators, carpenters, ceramicists and seamstresses. Helen Marten presents a series of works from nominated projects Lunar Nibs at the 56th Venice Biennale and Eucalyptus Let Us In at Greene Naftali, New York.Using sculpture, screen printing and writing Marten produces works that are full of models and motifs taken from contemporary visual culture. She exhibited work in Paris, New York and Berlin before her first London show in 2012. Rarely have I been so struck” – Adrian Searle. “Other artists ask why she’s so successful and it’s because she works really fucking hard. 1985, Macclesfield, UK) studied at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London and Ruskin School of Fine Art, University of Oxford (2005-2008). Her work clearly invites you to look and look again more closely. An installation by Helen Marten is pictured during a photocall for the 2016 Turner Prize, at Tate Britain in London Credit: ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP/AFP/Getty Images … She had this confidence and there was already a deftness in the way she could handle material.”. "We are," she says, "archaeologists of our own time." It’s not to do with working hard, it’s about being driven and resourceful.”. And yet, it clearly isn't. Turner Prize 2016 awarded to Helen Marten.

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