Turnip Prize: See the winner and finalists in Somerset's bad art contest
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The winner of the spoof of the Turner Prize contemporary art awards, the Somerset-based Turnip Prize, has been awarded to Percy long-Prong for his work entitled Play on Words. Organiser Trevor Prideaux said he was "delighted with the lack of effort taken to create the work, it’s the ultimate play on words”.
This year's competition received 69 entries of deliberately bad artworks which were whittled down to six finalists. Another entry in the final was The Hobbit (a gas ring off a cooker) by Cobbsy.
Guido Babbato also made the final with the entry Smarty Pants - underwear which is seen pouring out of a Smarties sweet tube.
Chris McKinley submitted Slightly Open into the competition - a simple jar.
Finalist Tony Edmunds' Flower Power comprises a flower and a battery. Organiser Trevor Prideaux said: "It's been a really hard-fought contest. These days most puns have been done, and the standard of entries has plummeted."
And "Hugh Grant" entered the competition with a pile of red wood shavings he titled Brooks Hair Hacked. Mr Prideaux added: "It was very difficult to choose out of the final six, but any one of them could be a winner." The presentation for this year’s Turnip Prize took place at The New Inn in Wedmore, Somerset.
- Published6 December 2010