Gaada Director Helen Nisbet named as judge for The Turner Prize 2023
Gaada is very excited to share that our Director Helen Nisbet will be a judge for The Turner Prize 2023, hosted at Towner Gallery in Eastbourne.
Helen is a London based curator and writer from Shetland and is the Artistic Director for the nationwide biannual contemporary art festival, Art Night. Helen is a non-executive Director of Gaada who provides wide ranging organisational guidance on a voluntary basis. She uses her place-specific understanding of Shetland to support the organisation in planning for the future.
The Turner Prize 2023 judges are:
✨ Martin Clark, Director, Camden Art Centre
✨ Cédric Fauq, Chief Curator, Capc musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux
✨ Melanie Keen, Director of Wellcome Collection
✨ Helen Nisbet, Artistic Director, Art Night
The Turner Prize is one of the best-known prizes for the visual arts world, aiming to promote public debate around new developments in contemporary British art.
Established in 1984, the Prize is awarded annually to an artist born, living or working in Britain, for an outstanding exhibition or public presentation of their work anywhere in the world in the previous year.
Each year an expert jury is formed to select a shortlist of artists, whose work will provide a vital public platform for emerging British artists. The Turner Prize winner will be awarded £25,000 with £10,000 awarded to the other shortlisted artists at an award ceremony in December 2023.
Joe Hill, Director, Towner Eastbourne, said, “We are pleased that Martin, Cédric, Melanie and Helen will select our shortlist for the 2023 Turner Prize. Their range of experience, locally, nationally and globally will be sure to draw together a fantastic list of artists, who we will be privileged to exhibit in our galleries in 2023. We are delighted that the Turner Prize will be hosted at Towner as an important part of our centenary celebrations, and that this very capable and knowledgeable judging panel will be part of it. Hosting the Turner Prize will be an exciting moment not only for us but for Eastbourne."
