Helen Marten wins Turner Prize

Helen Marten was announced the winner of the Turner Prize at Tate Britain last night (6 December) for her poetic and enigmatic work that reflects the complexities and challenges of being in the world today, according to the judges.
Accepting the 25,000 award, which the 31-year-old artist said she would share with the other nominees, Marten warned against the ever more precarious global outlook. She referred to the stripping of arts from school syllabuses and the ever prominence of alt-right gro