On December 7, Veronica Ryan was confirmed as the winner of the prestigious Turner Prize 2022.
Ryan's dreamy, evocative 'Multiple Conversations 2019–21' and 'Along a Spectrum 2021' secured her the win, beating off fellow finalists, Heather Phillipson, Ingrid Pollard, and Sin Wai Kin. The 66-year-old is the oldest artist to win the prize, and received a standing ovation and ferocious applause at the ritzy award ceremony at St George's Hall.
For the win, Ryan scoops the £25,000 top prize, as well as attention and interest from art critics and fans across the globe, while her fellow finalists will each receive £10,000. Ryan works with cast forms in clay and bronze; sewn and tea-stained fabrics, and bright neon crocheted fishing line pouches filled with a variety of seeds, fruit stones and skins to reference displacement, fragmentation and alienation.
