Veronica Ryan wins 2022 Turner prize for work including Windrush tribute

Veronica Ryan, winner of the £25,000 Turner prize, was praised for the ‘poetic way she extends the language of sculpture’. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA

Veronica Ryan, who created the UK’s first permanent artwork to honour the Windrush generation, has won the 2022 Turner prize, one of the world’s most prestigious awards for visual arts.

Ryan, 66, becomes the oldest artist to win the prize. She was nominated for the Windrush sculpture, which was unveiled in Hackney, London, last year, and for her solo exhibition Along a Spectrum at Spike Island, Bristol.