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Elizabeth Price (born 6 November 1966) is a British artist who won the
Turner Prize The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist. Between 1991 and 2016, only artists under the age of 50 were eligible (this restriction was removed for the 2017 award). ...
in 2012. She is a former member of
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bands Talulah Gosh 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
The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art The Ruskin School of Art, known as the Ruskin, is an art school at the University of Oxford, England. It is part of Oxford's Humanities Division. History The Ruskin grew out the Oxford School of Art, which was founded in 1865 and later becam ...
at the
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