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Turner prize 2013: the nominees' work – in pictures

Turner Prize 2013: Pictured is 'Life Model 2012' by David Shrigley.
David Shrigley's work is called Life Model 2012 – and it's a free life-drawing class for every visitor Photograph: Graeme Robertson
Turner Prize 2013: Pictured is 'Life Model 2012' by David Shrigley.
Closeups of visitors' drawings from Shrigley's life-drawing class, which are tacked to the walls of his room – and will soon cover them Photograph: Graeme Robertson
Turner Prize 2013: Pictured is 'Life Model 2012' by David Shrigley.
Shrigley's polyester life-drawing model simply stands there, blinks mechanically – and occasionally pees into his bucket Photograph: Graeme Robertson
Turner Prize 2013: 'Life Model 2012' by David Shrigley.
An early Turner visitor with crayons poised to finish her Shrigley-esque creation Photograph: Graeme Robertson
Turner Prize 2013: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
All of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's paintings are a kind of fiction. None of her subjects exist in real life; she dreams each one up Photograph: Graeme Robertson
Turner Prize 2013: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Yiadom-Boakye has invented a whole world of characters for her Turner prize entry Photograph: Graeme Robertson
Turner Prize 2013: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
All of her subjects are black, and their smiles and white shirts stand out almost glaringly in the spotlit space Photograph: Graeme Robertson
Turner Prize 2013: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
A visitor enters the shadowy, spotlit world of Yiadom-Boakye Photograph: Graeme Robertson
Turner Prize 2013: Pictured is 'Wantee' by Laure Prouvost.
Laure Prouvost's Wantee installation is a fictional version of her grandparents' living room – which visitors stumble into mid-tea party Photograph: Graeme Robertson
Turner Prize 2013: Pictured is 'Wantee' by Laure Prouvost.
Prouvost's piece is called Wantee, after Kurt Schwitters’ girlfriend, who Prouvost has woven into her story. Could these be Wantee's eyeballs? Photograph: Graeme Robertson
Turner Prize 2013: Pictured is 'Wantee' by Laure Prouvost.
In Prouvost’s multimedia installations, visitors take a tour of her grandparents’ house, surrounded all the while by paintings, hapless sculptures and homemade teapots Photograph: Graeme Robertson
Turner Prize 2013: Wantee' by Laure Prouvost.
The whole of Prouvost's installation is filled with nooks, crannies and clutter Photograph: PR
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