Beck's Futures was a British art prize founded by London's Institute of Contemporary Arts and sponsored by Beck's beer given to contemporary artists. Prior to the establishment of the prize in 2000, Beck's had sponsored several exhibitions of contemporary art in Britain by providing free beer. Together with Artangel, they had also commissioned a number of works by artists, including Rachel Whiteread's ''

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'' and ''Water Tower'' and pieces by Douglas Gordon and Tony Oursler. Although it does not receive as much publicity as the Turner Prize, the prize fund is larger - in 2003, it was £65,000 to the Turner Prize's £20,000. Of this, £20,000 went to the winner, who also took a share of the £40,000 divided between all the shortlisted artists. The remaining £5,000 was allocated to the Student Prize for Film and Video, with £2,000 of that going to the winner. For the first three years of the prize a call for nominations was made to curators and critics around the UK. This proved controversial as unlike the Turner Prize artists knew they had been nominated even if they did not make the final shortlist. The open call was replaced with an anonymous nominations panel.

Winners

*2000 - Roderick Buchanan *2001 -

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*2002 -

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*2003 -

Rosalind Nashashibi Layla Rosalind Nashashibi (born 1973) is a Palestinian-English artist based in London. Nashashibi works mainly with 16 mm film but also makes paintings and prints. Her work often deals with everyday observations merged with mythological elemen ...

*2004 - Saskia Olde Wolbers *2005 - Christina Mackie *2006 -

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The 2003 prize, presented by

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, was awarded on 29 April at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. As well as Nashashibi, the shortlisted artists were

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, Nick Crowe, Alan Currall,

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, David Sherry, Lucy Skaer, Francis Upritchard and Carey Young. The panel of judges was chaired by the artist Michael Landy, and also included the curators Russell Ferguson, Maria Lind and Hans Ulrich Obrist. The 2004 prize was awarded on 27 April to Saskia Olde Wolbers. The other shortlisted artists were Haluk Akakçe, Tonico Lemos Auad, Simon Bedwell, Ergin Çavusoglu, Andrew Cross, Susan Philipsz,

Imogen Stidworthy Imogen Theresa Stidworthy (born 27 September 1963) is a British multimedia artist based in Liverpool. Biography Stidworthy has exhibited at documenta 12 and most recently her work has been shown at the Thessaloniki Biennale (2007), Shanghai Bien ...

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and Nicoline Van Harskamp. The 2005 prize, presented by Richard Hamilton, was awarded on 26 April to Christina Mackie. The other shortlisted artists were Lali Chetwynd,

Luke Fowler Luke Fowler (born 1978) is an artist, 16mm filmmaker and musician based in Glasgow. He studied printmaking at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee. He creates cinematic collages that have often been linked to the British Free ...

, Ryan Gander,

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, and

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. The 2006 prize was awarded to

by a panel made-up of Jake and Dinos Chapman, Martin Creed, Cornelia Parker, Yinka Shonibare and Gillian Wearing. There was also a public vote, the outcome of which was added as an extra vote in the judging panels final count. Shortlisted for the prize were Blood ‘n’ Feathers (Jo Robertson & Lucy Stein),

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, Stefan Brüggemann, Richard Hughes,

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, Seb Patane,

Olivia Plender Olivia Plender (born 1977) is an artist based in London and Stockholm. She is known for her installations, performances, videos, and comics. Life and career Plender was born in London London is the capital and List of urban areas in th ...

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, Daniel Sinsel,

, Sue Tompkins,

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. This was to be the Beck's sponsored prize's last year.

External links

A review of the 2003 prize show by Adrian Searle in ''The Guardian''
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Winners

See also

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