YouTube artist on Turner Prize list must visit

Duncan Campbell is nominated for his video exhibited at the 2013 Venice Biennale A video artist who uses YouTube clips, a print-maker and an artist who pairs spoken word with photography are among this year's Turner Prize nominees.

Duncan Campbell, James Richards, Ciara Phillips and Tris Vonna-Michell are on the shortlist for the prestigious and provocative contemporary art prize.

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This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Turner Prize, and true to its non-conformist nature, there are unlikely to be any oil paintings or figurative sculptures on display at the 2014 exhibition”

End Quote Will Gompertz BBC arts editor Between them, they employ audio, video, craft and design - but there are no traditional painters or sculptors.

The winner, who will receive £25,000, will be named on 1 December.

Internet impact

The nomination announcement said the four artists' methods "suggest the impact of the internet, cinema, TV and mobile technologies on a new generation of artists".

Tate Britain director Penelope Curtis, who chairs the jury, said they shared "a strong international presence and an ability to adapt, restage and reinterpret their own and others' works, very often working in a collaborative social contexts".

BBC News arts editor Will Gompertz suggested that the four all "make work that is in some way shape or form, a collage".

He said: "This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Turner Prize, and true to its non-conformist nature, there are unlikely to be any oil paintings or figurative sculptures on display at the 2014 exhibition."

The nominees are:

Dublin-born, Glasgow-based Duncan Campbell is nominated for a video that was part of Scotland's entry in last year's Venice Biennale.

His film, It for Others, is a reflection on a remarkable historical documentary about African art made by the French filmmakers Chris Marker and Alain Resnais in 1953.

It also includes a stunning dance sequence created with choreographer Michael Clark.

Campbell studied at the Glasgow School of Art. The city has produced four of the last nine Turner Prize winners.

Scotland takes on the Venice biennale

Canada-born print-maker Ciara Phillips is another Glasgow-based nominee.

She has been shortlisted for a two-month project at The Showroom gallery in north-west London, where she set up a temporary print studio and invited artists, designers, and local women's groups to produce new screen prints.

She also set up The Poster Club, a collective of like-minded artists, in Glasgow in 2010, and creates screenprints, textiles, photographs and wall paintings.

The Scotsman wrote last year: "Phillips is a brilliant print maker who imbues the medium with a freshness that is remarkable, in posters, prints and textiles."

James Richards pieces together apparently unrelated clips from a wide variety of sources - including YouTube, VHS tapes from charity shops, other artists' films and footage he has shot himself.

In one video, he spliced together a clip of Brooke Shields in Nightmare on Elm Street with a girl drawing an eye in an instructional video and footage of space, all of which shared the same zoom speed.

He has been shortlisted for a 13-minute black-and-white video that was part of a group show at the Venice Biennale.

The Turner Prize citation said he created "poetic meditations on the pleasure, sensuality and the voyeurism that is within the act of looking".

Tris Vonna-Michell explores methods of storytelling, combining spoken word performances, recorded narration, slide-shows and printed photographs.

His nomination is for an installation at the Jan Mot gallery in Brussels that used two slide projections and an audio narration relating to his mother's childhood in Berlin.

Another graduate of Glasgow School of Art, his work was last seen in the UK at the Baltic gallery in Gateshead, with an installation inspired by the National Trust's nearby Gibside property.

His "fragments of information, detours and repetitions designed to confuse and enlighten in equal measure", the Turner nomination said.

The Turner Prize is open to British contemporary artists under the age of 50. The nominees will be on show at the Turner Prize Exhibition at Tate Britain from 30 September.

Last year's winner was Laure Prouvost, who created a video installation about the disappearance of her contemporary artist grandfather.

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Wimbledon losers' prize money boost must visit

The overall prize fund has increased by 10.8% to £25m, with first round losers seeing their reward rise from £11,500 in 2011 to £27,000 in 2014.

All England Lawn Tennis Club chief executive Richard Lewis said: "I'm not saying they are pleading poverty.

"But they aren't making huge sums of money for world-class sportsmen."

"Top 100 players, who benefit from direct entry into all four Grand Slams, can now earn nearly £100,000 a year just for losing in the first round.

"Wimbledon are not rewarding failure, however, but instead helping some of the lower ranked players meet large coaching, travelling and living expenses.

"One unwanted consequence could be more one sided first round matches, as players may be less likely to withdraw through injury with such a large sum of money at stake."

AELTC chairman Philip Brook told BBC Sport: "We have been conscious of the fact that we have many players coming to Wimbledon who are making their way on the professional circuit looking to reach the top echelons of the sport.

"It is a very long and a very expensive road on which to travel, and we've felt for the last two or three years that we need to do more to help these players on that journey."

The singles champions will receive £1.76m, 10% more than Andy Murray and Marion Bartoli received last year.

Brook added that defending champion Murray's slip to eighth in the rankings will not harm his seeding for this year's tournament.

Wimbledon use a surface-based system to determine seedings, based on their performance on grass in combination with their ranking.

As a result, Brook said the system will have a "significant impact" on Murray, who triumphed at the Queen's Club and Wimbledon last summer, as well as reaching the Wimbledon final in 2012.

"There will also be quite a significant impact on Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic; there will be some adjustment," added Brook.

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