Elizabeth Price wins Contemporary Art Society award
Elizabeth Price has scooped this year's Contemporary Art Society award.
The indie-pop singer turned multimedia artist was announced as the 2013 recipient during a ceremony hosted at the Dairy Art Centre in London on November 18.
Mark Wallinger presented the £60,000 gift to Price and the Ashmolean Museum, where the Turner Prize-winning artist will create a new work for the institution's permanent collection.
This will be the first ever moving image work by a living artist to enter the Ashmolean’s collection, drawing on its rich history.
Price's commission will comprise a single-screen video, which will present and narrate artefacts from the Department of Antiquities.
She intends to create a sculptural installation and focus on the female figure through the Ashmolean’s selection of photographs and drawings.
The commission will be unveiled in 2015 to coincide with various celebrations at the museum – including the 330th birthday events, as well as the 400th anniversary of the birth of founder Elias Ashmole in 2017.
