Turner prize 2007
Mark Wallinger wins Turner prize with Sleeper 2004/5. Photograph from Charlie Hopkinson
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Mark Wallinger has won the Turner prize for Sleeper 2004/5 after a ceremony at Tate Liverpool.
The UK artist had been the favourite for the prestigious award and the £25,000 cheque after spending ten consecutive nights in Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie dressed in a bear suit.
Sleeper 2004/5 is an abridged video record of his night-time wanderings in the empty and noiseless museum.
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The Turner prize's other nominees, whose work is being displayed in Tate Liverpool until January 13th, were Zarina Bhimji, Nathan Cole and Mike Nelson, who all receive £5,000.
 | Ugandan-born Bhimji's nominated work includes a selection of photographs and videos she took during a trip in eastern Africa.
This shot of a group of rifles resting against a wall, entitled Illegal Sleep, is among the most visually arresting on display. |
 | Nelson has twice been nominated for the Turner prize, but his installation this year featured an extensive labyrinth of white corridors that lead to peepholes that appear to have been punched through the walls themselves. |
 | People gazing into the crude holes, however, will find themselves immersed in a mirrored, glittering desert landscapes that stretches impossibly to distant buildings on the horizon. |
 | This scaffold, which features light-bulbs spelling the work's overall name There Will Be No Miracles Here, is the centrepiece of Coley's entry. |
 | Wallinger, who used his acceptance speech to renew his attack upon Britain's involvement in the Iraq war, was an unexpected feature of the Neue Nationalgalerie for passers-by for ten days.
The bear is the symbol of the German capital and Tate Liverpool says the work stirs up "notions of national memory and allegory" en route to its examination of "identity and representation". |