Plymouth will bid to host the Turner Prize
THE World's most famous modern art award could be coming to Plymouth, The Herald can reveal.
A bid is being drawn up for the Turner Prize show and ceremony to be staged in the city in 2015.
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Sarah Chapman, director of Peninsula Arts
If the application, led by Plymouth University's Peninsula Arts, were successful the city would enjoy a visitor bonanza and a blaze of media attention.
The Turner 2011 show attracted 150,000 visitors to the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, the second time the event has been held outside London in the prize's 28-year history.
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Sarah Chapman, director of Peninsula Arts confirmed: "We are finalising a bid to bring the Turner Prize to Plymouth in 2015.
"We don't know who we will be up against. The competition (to host the prize) will be enormous so we have no idea if we will be successful – that would be a huge thing.
"But it is absolutely important that we have the passion and the self-belief in our city to try for it."
Peninsula Arts is the lead organisation in a partnership making the bid, including Plymouth Visual Arts Consortium. PVAC includes the council-owned City Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth University, Plymouth College of Art and Plymouth Arts Centre.
Those organisations brought the British Art Show 7 exhibition to the city last year, attracting 75,000 visitors.
Plymouth-born "living sculpture" George Passmore was co-winner of the Turner in 1986. Former Plymouth College pupil Richard Deacon won in 1987. His sculpture, Moor, is in Victoria Park.
The bid envisages the four Turner Prize finalists showing their work in the Peninsula Arts Gallery in the Levinsky building.
Ms Chapman said the bid fitted Plymouth Culture Board's mission to expand creative activity in the city in the run-up to Mayflower 2020, the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrim Fathers' journey to America.
The board – comprising members from the private sector, city council, culture industry and education – is working on a bid for Plymouth to become UK City of Culture in 2017.
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Comments
by anglo_dutch
Monday, September 17 2012, 5:18PM
“Once again all the negative comments(always the same names) by people who seem to have empty lives. I like art but am not an expert. I look at a painting/sculpture or what ever and I like it or I don't. That doesn't mean that one is great or the other rubbish. It's like wine, irrespective of the lable , I like the taste or I don't. I would be interested what these negative people really appreciate in their life or which cities/towns they think are better than Plymouth and what their reasoning is? They question other people's integrity (accusing councillors or organisers of events as corrupt) . Hopefully they are a very small minority. They really are sad people. Yes , the infrastructure to access Plymouth should be improved. Who will pay for it? They wouldn't donate or be willing to pay more taxes. They just throw their rubbish in bins and expect it to disappear !!”
by Vinnie_Gar
Monday, September 17 2012, 3:01PM
“Waasn't there a same amount of negativity before The Americas Cup?
That was fandabbydoscious.”
by deputydog
Monday, September 17 2012, 2:06PM
“how are the visitors going to get here we have no airport the railways are useless trains overcrowded have they thought this through”
by shipmateron
Sunday, September 16 2012, 10:10PM
“Oh come on HermesThelema I bet you'd still give her.....hang on....oh my god I must have been paralytic!”
by jabbathebutt
Sunday, September 16 2012, 9:27PM
“No doubt that the council will find out which route these "turner people" will take into Plymouth and make sure they dont see the potholes and traffic jams etc.... just as they done for the Olympic torch .”
by jabbathebutt
Sunday, September 16 2012, 9:20PM
“Bit like "plymouth "may" host world cup all over again . More freebies and something to do for the ones with a funny handshake usualy sat on their backside and refusing to do what the locals actulaly want . After all... they sold a profitable bus company based on a bronze medal to fund a funless swimming pool which will last for a minimum of 30 years till it gets pulled down .”
by stratobuddy
Sunday, September 16 2012, 5:16PM
“How will all the VIP's get here? Hopefully by air to the reopened airport.”
by leroc
Sunday, September 16 2012, 3:22PM
“I think that Drake Circus could be entered for the Turner Prize.
It's typical of many Turner prize winners in that no one can fathom what it is supposed to be, other than a building that was designed by 3 architects who didn't get on!”
by blogtodi
Sunday, September 16 2012, 10:20AM
“I think there's an element of 'Emperor's New Clothes' with the Turner entries. Most are afraid to say, "That's cr@p!" for fear of not being 'in' with the 'in-crowd'. personally some of it is cr@p and definitely not my definition of art but hey-ho, at least it's a level playing field as long as Daddy has enough money to support you while you work on your unmade bed or pickled equine...”
by UrbanPirate
Sunday, September 16 2012, 9:53AM
“yes, more of this. This would be a great thing for plymouth to host. Stories like this give me hope that there are people in plymouth who are at least trying.”