Scottish artist Jasleen Kaur has won the 2024 Turner Prize – the annual British art-world honour bestowed by the Tate Gallery – for her solo exhibition, Alter Altar, which was shown last year at the Tramway in Glasgow, her home city.
Kaur’s prize-winning installation explores her childhood and the Scottish Sikh community in which she grew up, relating that experience to broader social and political narratives around nationalism, post-colonialism, working-class culture and gender roles.
According to Kaur, Alter Altar explores “improvisation and political mysticism as tools to reimagine tradition and inherited myths”. Restaged in Tate Britain’s London galleries, the exhibition – like much of her work – incorporates sculpture, found everyday objects, video, photography (some appropriated from archival sources) and sound. The show has been immensely popular with both the public and art critics alike.
