Update, 9th Dec: congratulations to Glasgow-born Nnena Kalu, who has won the 2025 Turner Prize.

Billed as showcasing and celebrating ‘the most exciting new developments in British art’, the annual Turner Prize is based in Bradford in Yorkshire this year, the 250th anniversary of artist J M W Turner’s birth.

The shortlisted artists – Nnena Kalu, Rene Matic, Mohammed Sami and Zadie Xa – were announced on 23rd April 2025 (Turner’s birthday). Their work features in the annual Turner Prize exhibition, which is taking place at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery in Bradford, Yorkshire, where the winner, Scottish artist Nnena Kalu, was announced on 9th December. Entry to the accompanying exhibition is free but ticketed.

Every other year, a UK venue outwith Tate Britain in London hosts the Prize, which was inaugurated in 1984, and awarded to an artist working primarily in Britain or an artist born in Britain and working internationally. The Prize is named after nineteenth-century English artist J M W Turner, who was seen as a controversial figure in his day and now considered to be one of the greatest British artists. Turner is asian to have expressed the wish to have established a prize for young artists, although since 2016 the former age-limit of 50 was lifted.

The award is £55,000, with £25,000 going to the winner, and £10,000 each to the other shortlisted artists; the jury decides the winner on the day of the announcement, through a series of discussions until consensus is arrived at. A celebrity presents the prize at a ceremony, with previous presenters having included Richard Attenborough, Paul Smith, Nick Cave, Yoko Ono, Mario Testino and Madonna.

Videos introducing the artists are available to view on the Prize’s website.