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‘I fight pain and fear with art’: how Yayoi Kusama blazed a trail for neurodivergent artists

The pioneering Japanese artist talked openly about how her mental health and neurodivergence informed her creativity, paving the way for the likes of Turner prize winner Nnena Kalu

The Guardian - UK

‘Pain is a violent lover’: Daisy Lafarge on the paintings she made when floored with agony

Suffering from a connective tissue disorder and enduring endless calls to try and get benefits, the poet and novelist turned to painting – resulting in work that could change perceptions of disabled people

The Guardian - UK

Nnena Kalu’s triumph for neurodivergent art has rattled a few cages. So let me put those carping critics right

The artist’s winning Turner prize entry has been hailed for its life and energy, but to some dissenting voices its challenge to the status quo is hard to stomach, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

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The Guardian view on Nnena Kalu’s historic Turner prize win: breaking a glass ceiling

Editorial: The UK art world is finally becoming more inclusive. But greater support must be given to the organisations that enable disabled artists to flourish

The Guardian - UK

Nnena Kalu has won the 2025 Turner prize – working with her has inspired my work and academic research

The 2025 Turner prize has been won by Nnena Kalu. It’s a historic win and a groundbreaking moment in the prestigious prize’s history.

The Conversation

‘Nnena Kalu was ready for this – nobody else was’: how her Turner prize victory shook the art world

As the first learning-disabled artist to win the UK’s most prestigious art award, Kalu has smashed a ‘very stubborn glass ceiling’. Her facilitator reveals why her victory is so seismic – and the secrets of her party playlist

The Guardian - UK

Groundbreaking Turner Prize win is ‘richly deserved’, says charity

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Turner Prize winner celebrated by charity for ‘long overdue’ win

Scottish artist communicates with limited verbal expression, is the first artist with a learning disability to win the prestigious prize

The Independent UK

Disability charity praises autistic Nnena Kalu’s ‘long overdue’ Turner Prize win

Sense described the 59-year-old’s victory as ‘incredibly significant’.

Evening Standard

Turner Prize 2025: Nnena Kalu makes history to claim Britain's top art award

British-Nigerian artist Nnena Kalu has won the Turner Prize, one of the world's top art awards, for her "compelling" sculptures and drawings made from recycled materials.

Euronews

Nnena Kalu wins the Turner Prize 2025 in ‘seismic’ moment for award

The Glasgow-born, learning-disabled artist joins a prestigious list of recipients including Damien Hirst, Steve McQueen and Grayson Perry

The Independent UK

Nnena Kalu’s embodied, sensuous art makes her a worthy Turner prize winner

The closer you get to Kalu’s endless sinewy trails of old VHS tape, the harder it is to know where their forms stop and the space around them begins

The Guardian - UK

Nnena Kalu becomes first artist with a learning disability to win Turner prize

Chair of 2025 judging panel says win ‘begins to erase that border between the neurotypical and neurodiverse artist’

The Guardian - UK

Scottish artist Nnena Kalu wins Turner Prize 2025

Glaswegian artist Nnela Kalu was crowned the winner of the art award at the ceremony on Tuesday evening

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Exhibition by artists shortlisted for Turner Prize unveiled in Bradford

The four shortlisted artists are Rene Matic, Nnena Kalu, Mohammed Sami and Zadie Xa, with the winner due to be announced at a ceremony in December.

The Guardian - UK

Turner prize 2025 review – puzzling banners, tinkling bells, burning landscapes and bum-like sculptures

There are calls for peace, intimations of violence, Korean folklore and spiralling vortices: everyone has a spiel but one artist stands out

The Guardian - UK

‘Her need to make is off the scale’: why Nnena Kalu’s Turner prize nomination is a watershed moment for art

The Glasgow-born artist makes huge cocoon-like sculptures out of found fabric and videotape. We meet the team who helped her become the first learning-disabled person to make the award shortlist

The Conversation

Mohammed Sami emerges as favourite in predictable Turner prize 2025 shortlist

The Turner prize is the world’s most prestigious award for contemporary art. Named after the renowned British painter J.M.W. Turner, the prize used to be a huge media affair. After it relaunched in 1991, it had a full live feature on Channel 4 (back in the day when most people…

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Who is shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2025? Check out the four artists

A guide to the artists nominated for the 2025 Turner Prize, with the exhibition taking place in Bradford this year...

The Guardian - UK

An irrelevant bourgeois ritual: this year’s Turner prize shortlist is the soppiest ever

Holy balls of wool! From pointless paintings to emotionless snapshots, the once-controversial award tiptoes too earnestly across the minefield of today’s culture wars

The Guardian - UK

Videotape sculptures and war trauma paintings make Turner prize shortlist

Nnena Kalu, Mohammed Sami, Rene Matić and Zadie Xa nominated for £25,000 contemporary art prize

Evening Standard

Turner Prize shortlist includes artist who uses ‘salvaged’ antique dolls in work

All four artists on the shortlist this year are London-based.

Euronews

'Turner's spirit of innovation is still alive': Shortlisted artists announced for 2025 Turner Prize

From huge paintings to complex installations, this year's shortlisted artists for the Turner Prize embrace the 250-year-old artist's ambition.

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In Pictures: The week in Culture

If a picture paints a thousand words... here’s all you need to know or may have missed about this past week in Culture (17-21 March 2025).

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When Attitudes Take Form: A celebration of artists with intellectual disabilities in Italy

A newly opened exhibition in Turin is highlighting the work of 13 artists with intellectual disabilities from the Eisenberg Collection.

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