Elizabeth Price (born 6 November 1966) is a British artist who won the

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in 2012. She is a former member of

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and The Carousel.Nick Clark
'Elizabeth Price takes Turner Prize 2012 for 'seductive' video trilogy'
''Independent.co.uk'', 3 December 2012. Retrieved 3 December 2012.

Biography

Price was born in Bradford,

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."Turner Prize: 2012 shortlist announced"
''BBC News'', 1 May 2012 She was raised in

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and studied at Putteridge High School before moving on to

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at the

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as a member of Jesus College. She continued her studies at the

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in London, where she completed her MFA, and in 1999 she received her PhD in Fine Art from the

University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

. In 1986 Price was a founder of the Oxford-based indie pop band,

, in which she was one of the singers. The band became defunct in 1988. In 2005 Price was awarded a Stanley Picker Fellowship at Kingston University, London. In 2012 Price was in residence at

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. In 2012 (until 2013) she became the first artist-in-residence at the Rutherford Appleton Space Laboratory in Oxfordshire. Price was nominated for the 2012 Turner Prize for her solo exhibition 'HERE' at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, where three video works were displayed: ''User Group Disco'' (2009), ''The Choir'' (2012) and ''West Hinder'' (2012). The 2012 Turner Prize exhibition at

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featured her twenty-minute video installation ''The Woolworths Choir of 1979'' (which includes elements from ''The Choir''), for which she was awarded the prize on 3 December 2012. ''

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'' art critic declared the "focus and drive of Price's work, the cutting and the atmosphere, mark her out".Adrian Searle
'Turner prize 2012: Elizabeth Price is a worthy winner in a vintage year'
''Guardian.co.uk'', 3 December 2012. Retrieved 3 December 2012. Price says her videos take a year to make. She explained "I use digital video to try and explore the divergent forces that are at play when you bring so many different technological histories together... I’m interested in the medium of video as something you experience sensually as well as something you might recognise."

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Biography

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