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This year's Turner Prize winner will be announced by actress Saoirse Ronan at an awards ceremony in Derry later. | |
David Shrigley, who created a giant nude model, is challenging installation artist Laure Prouvost, painter Lynette Yiadom-Boaky and performance artist Tino Sehgal for the £25,000 prize. | |
Their works have been on display in the grounds of an old army barracks at Ebrington for the past month. | |
It is the first time the annual art event has been held outside England. | |
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, 36, who studied in London and lives and works in the city, paints portraits of imaginary people and is the current favourite with bookmakers. | |
The prize's organisers said her "intriguing" paintings "appear traditional but are in fact much more innovative". | |
Yiadom-Boakye is of Ghanaian descent and is the first black woman to be nominated for the award, for her Extracts and Verses exhibition at the Chisenhale Gallery. | |
David Shrigley is best known for his line drawings and animations that make satirical comments on everyday situations. | |
He also produces photographs and paintings, and is shortlisted for his solo exhibition Brain Activity, at London's Hayward Gallery, which revealed "his black humour, macabre intelligence and infinite jest". | |
In Derry, members of the public have been invited to draw his urinating sculpture Life Model, a giant model of a man, before their drawings are exhibited on the wall alongside it. | |
But the sculpture caused controversy among some schools in Derry. | |
Ann Murray, the principal of Oakgrove Integrated Primary School in Derry, said: "This particular piece of art is too much for some students. | |
"We have younger people at the school, so I'd rather have their parents take them to see Shrigley's piece rather than the school. | |
As the exhibition was unveiled, Jack Malvern, arts correspondent for The Times newspaper, said: "I personally don't think it's offensive. | |
"What we have here is teachers who are worried about parents' potential reactions rather than their actual reactions. | |
"If one parent says 'no', then the entire class is excluded. It's a shame. | |
"There is nothing offensive about this, it's humorous." | |
Previous winners of the Turner Prize include Damien Hirst, Antony Gormley and video artist Elizabeth Price, who took last year's award. | |
It was established in 1984 to celebrate new developments in contemporary art and is given to a British artist under 50, who judges believe has put on the best exhibition of the last 12 months. | |
British-German performance artist Tino Sehgal, who is based in Berlin, does not allow his work to be photographed. | |
Last year he staged These Associations in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, a "live installation" consisting of interactions between volunteers and members of the public. | |
He is nominated for that and another "pioneering" project This Variation, which both "test the limits of artistic material and audience perception in a new and significant way". | |
In June 2013, Sehgal, 37, won the Golden Lion for best artist at the 55th Venice Biennale. | |
The fourth shortlisted artist, Laure Prouvost, is nominated for her new work Wantee which showcases her "unique" approach to film making. | |
The 35-year-old's short films and installations saw her awarded the fourth Max Mara art prize for women in 2011. | |
Wantee featured in Tate Britain's Schwitters in Britain exhibition and her two-part Max Mara art prize installation. | |
It "employs strong story-telling, quick cuts, montage and deliberate misuse of language to create surprising and unpredictable work". | |
This year's jury is chaired by Tate Britain director Penelope Curtis and includes the curator Annie Fletcher and the writer and lecturer Declan Long. | |
Each of the other shortlisted artists will receive £5,000. | |
The Turner Prize exhibition is on display at the Ebrington Barracks in Derry-Londonderry until 5 January. |