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Scottish Sun
03-06-2025
- Automotive
- Scottish Sun
Shoppers gobsmacked after bizarre Land Rover smash leaves one motor mounted on top of another
Luckily, the vehicles were all recovered and no one was hurt PARKS & WRECK CREATION Shoppers gobsmacked after bizarre Land Rover smash leaves one motor mounted on top of another Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) YOU can't park there madam! Supermarket shoppers are gobsmacked after a car park prang left one motor mounted on top of another. The smash is said to have happened when a woman in a Land Rover reversed into another car, flipping it over and hitting a silver VW Beetle. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 4 Supermarket shoppers are gobsmacked after a car park prang left one motor mounted on top of another Credit: Facebook 4 The smash is said to have happened when a woman in a Land Rover reversed into another car Credit: Facebook Others pointed out it looked like a modern sculpture. Former Army aircraft technician David Bowden posted pictures on social media, adding: 'It's all happening in Falmouth Sainsbury's. 'It is amazing, like a bit of modern art, or a collapsed game of Jenga.' Mark Carveth joked: 'The winner of the 2025 Turner prize is a sculpture from Falmouth.' READ MORE ON MOTOR INCIDENTS TOTAL RECALL Car brand to recall 273k motors due to issue that 'increases risk of crash' Dawn Chittock said: 'Would make a great Specsavers advert.' The incident happened at a Sainsbury's supermarket in Falmouth, Cornwall, on Saturday. A tannoy went out in the store asking for the driver of the blue car to attend the car park - where they were in for a shock. The vehicles were all recovered and no one was hurt. Two people were in one of the vehicles at the time of the crash, but both got out of the vehicle uninjured. Cops said the drivers swapped insurance details at the scene. A spokesperson for Devon and Cornwall Police said: "We were called to Sainsbury's, Falmouth, car park at around 1.30pm on Saturday 31 May following a report of a three vehicle collision. Horse gallops down Scots high street and crashes into car "Only one vehicle had occupants but both got out of the car uninjured. All vehicles were recovered and insurance details swapped." A Sainsbury's spokesperson said: "Emergency services attended an incident in the car park of our Falmouth store on Saturday afternoon. A small section of the car park was closed for a couple of hours and we're sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused." 4 The vehicles were all recovered and no one was hurt Credit: Facebook
The Irish Sun
03-06-2025
- Automotive
- The Irish Sun
Shoppers gobsmacked after bizarre Land Rover smash leaves one motor mounted on top of another
YOU can't park there madam! Supermarket shoppers are gobsmacked after a car park prang left one motor mounted on top of another. The smash is said to have happened when a woman in a Land Rover reversed into another car, flipping it over and hitting a silver VW Beetle. 4 Supermarket shoppers are gobsmacked after a car park prang left one motor mounted on top of another Credit: Facebook 4 The smash is said to have happened when a woman in a Land Rover reversed into another car Credit: Facebook Others pointed out it looked like a modern sculpture. Former Army aircraft technician David Bowden posted pictures on social media, adding: 'It's all happening in Falmouth Sainsbury's. 'It is amazing, like a bit of modern art, or a collapsed game of Jenga.' Mark Carveth joked: 'The winner of the 2025 Turner prize is a sculpture from Falmouth.' READ MORE ON MOTOR INCIDENTS Dawn Chittock said: 'Would make a great Specsavers advert.' The incident happened at a Sainsbury's supermarket in Falmouth, Cornwall, on Saturday. A tannoy went out in the store asking for the driver of the blue car to attend the car park - where they were in for a shock. The vehicles were all recovered and no one was hurt. Two people were in one of the vehicles at the time of the crash, but both got out of the vehicle uninjured. Most read in Motors Cops said the drivers swapped insurance details at the scene. A spokesperson for Devon and Cornwall Police said: "We were called to Sainsbury's, Falmouth, car park at around 1.30pm on Saturday 31 May following a report of a three vehicle collision. Horse gallops down Scots high street and crashes into car "Only one vehicle had occupants but both got out of the car uninjured. All vehicles were recovered and insurance details swapped." A Sainsbury's spokesperson said: "Emergency services attended an incident in the car park of our Falmouth store on Saturday afternoon. A small section of the car park was closed for a couple of hours and we're sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused." 4 The vehicles were all recovered and no one was hurt Credit: Facebook 4 Onlookers pointed out it looked like a modern sculpture Credit: Facebook
Times
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
The forgotten genius who taught Damien Hirst and inspired Britart
In 1996 the artist Helen Chadwick's career was on the rise. In 1987 she became one of the first women to be nominated for the Turner prize. In 1994 she broke the Serpentine Gallery's attendance records with her exhibition Effluvia, which included what are still her two most famous works — Cacao, new that year, a slightly quease-inducing bubbling fountain of melted chocolate, and Piss Flowers, 1991-2, bronze casts of the oddly floral shapes made in the snow by first her, then her husband's, streams of urine. A year later, her 1992-3 photograph series Wreaths to Pleasure — flowers carefully arranged in viscous liquids such as hair gel, bubble bath, oil, antiseptic cream and milk — went on display at the Museum
Daily Mail
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Dolls 'salvaged' from thrift shops, VHS tape sculptures and war trauma paintings: The four artists shortlisted for this year's Turner Prize are revealed
In his 1890 poem the Conundrum of the Workshops, Rudyard Kipling's devil studies the works of humankind and asks, among other question, 'It's clever, but is it art?' He may well be asking the same question again today with the unveiling of the 2025 Turner Prize shortlist. This year's nominations include an artist with a series of dolls 'salvaged' from thrift shops and online auctions, a sculptor who works with fabric wrapped in VHS tape and a mural artist who, as a child, painted propaganda for Saddam Hussein's regime. Announced today at Tate Britain - on what would have JMW Turner's 250th birthday - the shortlist has attracted criticism for failing to be revolutionary in the same way as previous years. Some of the works exhibited by the shortlisted creatives address right-wing populist politics, skinhead culture and refugees. Last year's winner, Jasleen Kaur, walked away with a £25,000 prize for her works. They included, among others, a red Ford Escort cabriolet draped in an oversized doily. Previous Turner prize shockers have included Damien Hirst, who won with a bisected cow and calf preserved in formaldehyde shocked art lovers in 1995, and Tracey Emin, who was nominated for her messy unmade bed in 1999. This year's nominees will be exhibited at Bradford's Cartwright Hall; the city is the 2025 UK City of Culture, and continues the tradition of alternating the host of the prize between the Tate and other parts of the country each year. Their work also includes a large white flag bearing the words 'no place', inscribed with quotes shared by politicians following the attempted assassination of Donald Trump Rene Matić Peterborough artist Rene Matić was nominated for their first institutional solo exhibition, called As Opposed To The Truth, which touches on ideas of the rise of right-wing populism and identities. Matic, 27, was praised by the jury for expressing 'concerns around belonging and identity, conveying broader experiences of a young generation and their community through an intimate and compelling body of work'. Their work looks at themes including 'the constructed self through the lens of rudeness', which they have taken from 'rudeboy' culture, the Jamaican subculture that spread in the UK in the 1960s. It includes personal photographs of family and friends in stacked frames, paired with sound, banners, and an installation at the Centre for Contemporary Arts Berlin, Germany. They also have an ongoing collection called Restoration, which focuses on 'antique black dolls' salvaged by the artist, and a large white flag quoting political leaders who called for 'no place for violence' in the wake of the attempted assassination of US President Donald Trump. Nnena Kalu Glasgow-born Kalu is a resident artist at ActionSpace's studio, which supports artists with learning disabilities across London, at Studio Voltaire. The artist, who is autistic and largely non-verbal, creates large-scale abstract sculptures and drawings that hang down from the wall or ceiling. Her works are made from colourful streams of repurposed fabric, rope, parcel tape, cling film, paper and reels of VHS tape. Kalu is nominated for her installation Hanging Sculpture 1-10, commissioned by Manifesta 15 Barcelona arts festival to be hung in a disused power station. She was also recognised for her work in Conversations, a group exhibition at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, of abstract swirls on paper. Judges commended for 'her unique command of material, colour and gesture and her highly attuned responses to architectural space'. Zadie Xa Canada-born Xa, 41, who studied at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver and the Royal College of Art in London, has taken influence from her Korean background and the country's 'spiritual rituals' and 'shamanism'. She is nominated for Moonlit Confessions Across Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers Everything (2025). The installation - a series of paintings with sound inspired by Salpuri, a Korean exorcism dance and a sculpture inspired by wind chimes and Korean shamanic rattles - was created with Spanish artist Benito Mayor Vallejo. It was previously shown at the shown at the United Arab Emirates' Sharjah Biennial art exhibition. The Turner Prize judges say her work focuses on 'the sea as a spiritual realm', and the work was 'reflective and enchanting'. Mohammed Sami Iraqi painter Sami, 40, was born in Baghdad - and aced his way through school by painting propaganda murals for Saddam Hussein's regime. The dyslexic artist agreed to paint murals in exchange for passing maths and English, but later sought asylum in Sweden after Saddam's government fell in the second Gulf War. He then studied at the Belfast School of Art and Goldsmiths College, London. His work After The Storm, exhibited at Churchill's birthplace Blenheim Palace, covers this era of his life, from his life in Baghdad to his new life in the West. The paintings do not have human figures, while one shows the 'shadow of a helicopter blade over a table and empty chairs', and another appears to suggest body bags. He says: 'My paintings seek to capture the state of confusion that occurs because of the cut thread between reality and the imagination; between war narrated and war witnessed.' Last year's winner, Jasleen Kaur, walked away with a £25,000 prize for her works which included, among others, a red Ford Escort cabriolet draped in an oversized doily An exhibition of works will be held at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery from September 27 2025 to February 22 2026 during the Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture celebrations. The winner will be announced on December 9 2025 at an award ceremony in Bradford. Turner prize nominations are infamously divisive and 2025 is no different - with some critics accusing the jury of having political agendas, or for not choosing works provocative enough to be worthy of the prize. In the Guardian, art critic Jonathan Jones - himself a one-time Turner judge - said the prize had 'lost its edge' as 'ideologies loom larger'. 'Clearly the jury are striking a blow against Brexity Little Englanders by shortlisting an artist from Vancouver whose art reclaims her Korean heritage – but who meets the rules by being resident in the UK,' he wrote of nominee Xa. 'But this shortlist's lack of connection with the realities of contemporary Britain is just another way to dig the ailing Turner prize deeper into irrelevance and empty bourgeois ritual.' Telegraph chief art critic Alastair Sooke, meanwhile, said the list lacked 'pizazz'. 'There is a legitimate sense that the annual, £25,000 award is in the doldrums of a midlife crisis, and nowadays attracts mostly lukewarm enthusiasm, or, worse, indifference,' he wrote. 'This year's shortlist may not allay such concerns. It's respectable and hard to fault, rather than controversial.' Previous recipients include sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor (1991), artist Damien Hirst (1995), and filmmaker Sir Steve McQueen (1999).
The Guardian
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
An irrelevant bourgeois ritual: this year's Turner prize shortlist is the soppiest ever
Remember when controversy was fun? If not, that's because you're too young. But back in the 1990s, my child, Britain got itself in hilarious knots about conceptual art, the readymade and whether a pickled shark or elephant dung can be art, with the Turner prize as battleground. It was a culture war but with laughs, because no one's identity was at stake and it wasn't like Brian Sewell was going to become prime minister and have Rachel Whiteread jailed. It is by embracing the earnestness of today's high-stakes culture wars that the Turner prize has lost its edge, the art getting more careful as the ideologies loom larger. This year's shortlist is the soppiest yet. Two of the artists nominated are painters. Painters, I ask you! This makes some sense of the shortlist announcement taking place on JMW Turner's 250th birthday. But as painters go, do Mohammed Sami and Zadie Xa (who also creates bland installations) compare with the boldness of Mr Turner? Neither is pushing back the boundaries of what a painting might be, or redefining this art for the 21st century in scale, freedom, audacity. I honestly don't know why Xa has been shortlisted. She's one of those artists whose mildly impressive but pointless work you see at every art fair and Biennial. Her figurative fantasy paintings framed by rambling, decorative installations mix up the myths of Vancouver and Korea, but the lack of rawness or shock or surprise is stultifying. Sami is in another league, and the quality artist on the shortlist. His large landscape paintings meditate on the horrors of war and agonies of enforced migration with a disconcerting poetry rooted in an impressionistic mistiness. You look at a blue sky over water, or trees above a rocky cliff, tenderly painted with whiffs of Monet and Cézanne, but then notice a refugee camp through the woods, or starbursts of ordnance in the Iraq sky. Surely he's a shoo-in to get the Turner prize. He is not only the best artist on this list but a real international talent whose seriousness and subtlety are obvious. So why am I not more thrilled? I suppose because this is good for you. Sami is important but he's not shocking. His art embraces skill instead of setting out to scandalise or create a new language. I would like it more if it had no moral value at all. So what about the non-painters? Will they provoke us with … balls of coloured paper and wool? That's what Nnena Kalu makes, hanging her multicoloured tangles of streamers and strands in poetical arrangements. These craftily wrought sculptures won't scare, or amaze, anyone. Kalu's work has a familiar appearance, and that's not just because she's been doing this stuff for two decades before recently getting recognition. It's because this kind of post-minimalist, found yet handworked sculpture has dried-out, attenuated roots in art movements that started way back in the 1960s. Nice, academic, dull. The artist who makes most sense as a Turner candidate, even firing the old flames of raw controversial reality, is Rene Matić, whose photographs portray intimate moments with family and friends – and report on skinhead subculture. Sadly these close, fragmentary images don't have great emotional pull on a stranger – it's a bit like looking at someone else's family snapshots. To make that work takes more flamboyance and poignancy than Matić shows. Rene's not a laugh. Yet there's something in their work that you don't get from the others: a glimpse of life in Britain right now. I think this goes to the heart of this Turner shortlist's fragility. It is determinedly globalist, reflecting a jury made up exclusively of curators who have shortlisted the kind of stuff they see all the time on the international circuit – Xa, for instance, has been shortlisted for work at the Sharjah Biennial, in the United Arab Emirates. Sign up to Art Weekly Your weekly art world round-up, sketching out all the biggest stories, scandals and exhibitions after newsletter promotion Clearly the jury are striking a blow against Brexity Little Englanders by shortlisting an artist from Vancouver whose art reclaims her Korean heritage – but who meets the rules by being resident in the UK. If Xa was a better artist this would be a more powerful gesture. But this shortlist's lack of connection with the realities of contemporary Britain is just another way to dig the ailing Turner prize deeper into irrelevance and empty bourgeois ritual. This year's exhibition will be in Bradford, far from the liberal elite metropolis this shortlist reeks of. So we'll go to Bradford, applaud these right-minded artists, approve of art without borders and ignore the rising vote for Reform outside this introspective event. Obviously there's good in all these artists but not enough to make the Turner matter again. Only one gives you a glimpse of what's going on in the streets, as opposed to the Biennials. I hope they win. Speak for England, Rene!
