Artist Charlotte Prodger poses after winning the 2018 Turner Prize at the Tate Britain December 4, 2018 – Image: REUTERS/Peter Nicholls
(Reuters) – Glasgowbased artist, Charlotte Prodger, won the 2018 Turner Prize on Tuesday, Britain’s prestigious contemporary art award, with an autobiographical film shot on a mobile phone. For the first time, all four works shortlisted for the annual prize were films, organisers said, tackling “some of today’s most important issues, from queer identity, human-rights
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abuses and police brutality to postcolonial migration and the legacy of liberation movements”. Prodger, who works with sculpture, writing, and film, was awarded the 25,000-pound ($31,785) prize for the autobiographical “BRIDGIT” as well as another video. Named after the Neolithic deity, “BRIDGIT” features snippets of Prodger at home or in the Scottish countryside, looking at her experience of coming out as gay. Filmed over one year, it uses narration from Prodger’s diary, as well as book extracts, looking at
