Turner prize 2010: the shortlist in pictures

Despite being in some ways the most conventional artist on this year's shortlist – he's a painter – with Dexter Dalwood there's more than meets the eye. His works often imagine events at which the artist was not present, frequently with political overtones, and shorn of real people. This is Greenham Common (2008)
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Dalwood's Death of David Kelly (2009), a surrealistic reimagining of the suicide of the government scientist, is bound to be one of the most controversial works in this year's show
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Another of Dalwood's paintings, White Flag (2010), a reference to the famous Jasper Johns painting of the same name, displaced to a setting that resembles wartime Iraq
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Angela de la Cruz works in a variety of media, producing sculptures and paintings that often look like works in progress. 'She lets the muck of daily life in, the frustrations and absurdities of painting, of creativity itself,' writes the Guardian's Adrian Searle. These two works are entitled, wryly, Deflated IX (2010) (foreground) and Clutter 1 (2003)
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Another view of De la Cruz's room inside the Turner prize exhibition at Tate Britain
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Super Clutter XXL, Pink and Brown (2006) by Angela de la Cruz
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'The broken chair on top of a rickety stool could be taken for a self-portrait', continues Searle; these works are Upright (2004), pictured foreground, and Untitled: Hold no 1 (2005)
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Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar – otherwise known as the Otolith Group – provide video work in what they refer to as 'a monument to dead television'
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The Otolith Group's Inner Time of Television 2007–10, an installation on 13 screens featuring a 13-part television programme about ancient Greece called The Owl's Legacy
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Susan Philipsz is the odd one out in this year's show: the first ever artist who works exclusively in sound to be shortlisted for the Turner. Her installation, Lowlands (2008/2010), recreates the work for which she was nominated, different versions of a 16th-century lover's lament played out under bridges in Glasgow. 'As you move around the room, the voices cleave you and steal your heart,' writes Searle
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