2004-12-07
... ?Guardian Unlimited | Arts special reports | Turner prize shock: out of four serious competitors, the best artist wins
Even the losers won't have a word to say against the winner: last night Jeremy Deller, unprecedentedly the favourite of the bookies, the critics, the public, and his own fellow artists, won the £25,000 Turner prize.
The judges praised his "generosity of spirit, across a succession of projects which engage with social and cultural context and celebrate the creativity of individuals".
The 38-year-old Londoner, who describes himself as "not a technically capable person", is almost unnaturally well-liked both by the art world and the general public.
