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Robert Jones, Napa

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I know, I know - you can't win with this subject.  Most of us have no understanding of what passes through the judges' and trustees' minds, and yet we know that if we say this is the search of good money for a pile of old corsets (we really should try that one year.... we could call it Woman's Burden, or something) we shall suffer the snide look, the furtive snigger, the assumption that we are just pathetic dabblers in pots of paint, and SO out of touch! Well, I shall risk that.  The prize this year has been won by a woman whose work includes, but is not restricted to (unfortunately) the draping of a very large lace doily over a motorcar.  The Turner Prize is about innovation and breaking barriers, as Turner himself did, so that MUST be all right.  And certainly one of the Guardian's two art critics (Adrian Searle) - quite why they need two when they seem to share the same brain-cell I'm unsure - has twinkled his little toes in a levitation of appreciation over it.   I reflect, because I don't really care - I was never likely to win the prize - that the public generally is cynical about the arts, questions their value, says it doesn't understand: and frankly, there are occasions when the public hits the problem right on the head of the nail.  The work - using that word in its loosest possible sense - is banal; it's not that it's meaningless, but that its meaning has the depth of a puddle. Having disqualified myself comprehensively from any pretence at artistry, I leave the subject to you, and I'm sure you'll be flocking to defend the winner.  

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Helen Martell

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Whatever barriers the ‘artist’ is breaking, in the judges opinion, goodness only knows….. Doilies draped over cars….. they’ll be duct taping bananas to walls next…. 🙄

Alan Bickley

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How could a competition with Turners great name on it, degenerate to this level! Year after year we get this ridiculous nonesense. Can it get any more pointless and silly? I’ve seen the photo of it and no, I don’t think so…a bowl of trifle and custard sat on the doily perhaps! Answers on a post card…

Denise Cat

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 Uninspiring trash. I'll never watch it again, it's turned into a joke and a bandstand for voicing foul language and highly emotive political views.

Norrette Moore

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I don't think I have ever appreciated a Turner winning piece.  Maybe someone with a good memory can recall one with any merit.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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If I may quote my nine  year old granddaughter “ It’s pure art Grandad “ this was said after she had picked up quarter inch square pieces of plasticine with a toothpick a laid the colour in different piles.  She said I will take it home dad won’t throw it out as I will tell him it’s pure  art . I asked what pure art is with a love thst said are you stupid she simply said This is Pure Art .  I suspect the artist might have the same opinion, or even the mind of a nine year old , mmm the marmalade on my toast has made a great pattern maybe it’s next years winner.