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Mark Wallinger
Shortlisted: 1995

Wallinger's primary concern has been to establish a valid critical approach towards the 'politics of representation and the representation of politics'. He chooses subjects in which he has a passionate interest, such as horse-racing, which he says 'has an extraordinary aesthetic frisson for me, which covers everything from the gambling to the magical identification with the animal on which your money rides to the sheer beauty of the thoroughbred'.

Half-Brother (Exit to Nowhere - Machiavellian)
Half-Brother (Exit to Nowhere - Machiavellian) 1994-5
Oil on canvas, 230 x 300 cm
Tate. Purchased 1995
© the artist, courtesy of Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London   Photo: Tate Photography

Mark Wallinger was born in Chigwell, Essex in 1959. Between 1977 and 1985 he studied at Loughton College, Chelsea School of Art, as well as Goldsmiths College. Wallinger was shortlisted in 1995 for the works he exhibited at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham and the Serpentine Gallery in London.

This information has been taken from The Turner Prize: Twenty Years, by Virginia Button, Tate Publishing, 2003.

View Mark Wallinger in the Tate Collection