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The Turnip Prize is a spoof UK prize that satirises the Tate Gallery's Turner Prize by exhibiting deliberately badly made \"art\" created with minimal effort. It was started mainly as a joke in 1999, but has gained national media attention and inspired other similar prizes. more...

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History

It was conceived in 1999 by the management and regulars of The George Hotel (subsequently the New Inn), Wedmore, Somerset. Its instigation was prompted by the exhibition of Tracey Emin's My Bed in the Turner Prize that year. It is organised by Trevor Prideaux. It was announced as, \"The Turnip Prize is a crap art competition ... You can enter anything you like, but it must be rubbish.\" The competition was based on the notion, \"We know it's rubbish, but is it art?\" and competitors submitted entries of ridiculous objects posing as contemporary art objects, mostly made from junk with titles that are spoofs or puns. The prize is a turnip impaled on a rusty six-inch nail.

In May 2000, the nominees appeared on the BBC TV Esther Rantzen show. The show has been featured regularly by national and even international media.

Other competitions

Other prizes have also challenged the Turner Prize. In 1993, the K Foundation awarded the Â£40,000 \"Anti-Turner Prize\", for the \"worst artist in Britain\", voted from the Turner Prize's short-list. In 2000 the Stuckists instituted \"The Real Turner Prize\" for painters. In 2003, the Daily Mail ran a \"Not the Turner Prize\" competition.

Many independent \"Turnip Prize\" competitions are now held around the world, with differing rules made up by those who are running the competitions. Competitions generally aspire to concept, \"We know it's rubbish, but is it art?\" and competitors submit entries made from junk with titles that are nonsensical or puns. Marks are awarded for amusement and lack of effort, and competitors are frequently disqualified for applying too much effort. In 2001, The Sun tabloid newspaper featured its own Turnip Prize.

In 2002 \"The Turnip Award\" was opened annually for students at Edinburgh College of Art to \"carve or design something out of the humble vegetable\". The 2005 prize was a mountain bike. In 2005 a Turnip Prize was staged at St Paul's Gallery in Tower Hamlets, London for local residents.

The term was previously used in 1998 by YBA Jake Chapman of the Chapman Brothers (2003 Turner Prize nominees): \"We thought if we couldn't get the Turner Prize we should get the Turnip Prize.\"

The Wedmore competition

In 2003, the winner was James Timms with Take a Leaf out of My Chook, a raw chicken stuffed with leaves.