Veronica Ryan
Cocoa Passion
Bristol, UK: Spike Island, 2021
14 x 6 x 6 cm.
Edition of 20 [+ 2 APs]
A sold-out edition of cast porcelain cocoa pods, produced on the occasion of Veronica Ryan’s exhibition Along a Spectrum at Spike Island, last year.
Today it was announced that Ryan won the prestigious Turner Prize, which is valued at £25,000 (the runners up Heather Phillipson, Ingrid Pollard, and Sin Wai Kin will each receive £10,000).
The Montserrat-born sculptor emigrated to the UK as a child in the 1950s. At age sixty-six, she is the oldest winner in the history of the Turner Prize, which began in 1984.
Ryan was nominated for the Along a Spectrum exhibition at Spike Island.
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