Meet the Turner prize 2011 nominees – in pictures

Hilary Lloyd, artist and Turner prize 2011 nominee Photograph: PR

Hilary Lloyd's installations, Tower Block and Moon, which overlook the Tyne river Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian

Shirt by Hilary Lloyd – one screen is focused, the other not Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian

Moon by Hilary Lloyd, depicting London at night, complete with sirens Photograph: Scott Heppell/AP

Artist Karla Black talks to journalists during the press preview Photograph: Christopher Thomond for The Guardian

Karla Black's work, titled More of the Day, is a joyful mess of torn paper and paints – a 'kindergarten rockery', according to Adrian Searle in his review Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian

Painter George Shaw talks to the media during the press preview Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian

Detail of George Shaw's The New Houses, which depicts a sad suburban wasteland. 'He gives us the world we live in,' says Adrian Searle Photograph: Christopher Thomond for The Guardian

Cameramen film next to George Shaw's painting The Age of Bullshit 2010 Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

Shut Up 2011 by George Shaw Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian

Artist Martin Boyce
Photograph: PR

A gallery worker inspects Martin Boyce's installation Do Words Have Voices Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Martin Boyce's hanging mobile, part of his work Do Words Have Voices

The Turner prize 2011 exhibition will be at Baltic in Gateshead until 8 January 2012 Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian