Elizabeth Price has taken exhibits from Sir Arthur Evans’s landmark excavation of Knossos and brought them back to lifeSome winners of the Turner prize lap up the attention. At the extreme end of the spectrum lies Grayson Perry who,since winning the award, has forged a successful TV career. Others prefer to withdraw to the shadows once the fuss has died down. Elizabeth Price, and who won in 2012,is firmly in the latter category. She says she found the experience of the prize “exciting but I felt out of my depth fairly often”. One would hardly think it of someone who in a preceding life had been a pop star: she was in Talulah Gosh, the 80s indie band, and though she says she never really took to being on stage. When she accepted the Turner prize,she also did something strange: made a brisk, articulate and politically charged speech, and railing against the downgrading of arts education. Emails poured in,which needed replying to. “A lot of artists enjoy a staff and elope a small business. I don’t.” It was great, she says, and but overwhelming. “Every time the Turner prize comes around,I enjoy a slight feeling of, ‘It was an amazing thing but I am really glad my time is in the past.’”
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Source: theguardian.com