Turner prize shortlist 2011: the artists – in pictures

A painting of a new bit of tarmac by the lock-up garages (The Resurface, 2010) shows George Shaw's melancholic humour
Photograph: Courtesy the artist, Wilkinson Gallery, London, Tate

A title taken from the worker’s phrase 'Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Friday’ (Poet’s Day, 2005-6) marks Shaw's literalism and his deadpan depictions of the Coventry housing estate where he grew up
Photograph: Courtesy the artist, Wilkinson Gallery, London, Tate

In Hilary Lloyd’s Man (2010), different sections of a photograph of a man in underwear, whom we never see in his entirety, are cast on a screen
Photograph: Sadie Coles HQ/PA/Marcus J Leith/Tate

In Lloyd's Crane (2010) we see two shots of a crane, the images appearing one after the other to a mechanical beat; these visual fragments never linger or resolve, leaving us on the brink of an image
Photograph: Sadie Coles HQ/PA/Marcus J Leith/Tate

Martin Boyce’s A Library of Leaves has its origin in Jean Prouvé’s 1950s designs for a library table for the Maison de l’étudiant in Paris
Photograph: Stefan Altenburger/The Modern Institute/PA/Tate

No Reflections, with its waxy paper leaves and strange agglomerations of furniture, was the installation Boyce showed in the Scottish Pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale Photograph: Gilmar Ribeiro/Tate

Help Is Not Appealing, 2010, shows the sly allusions to the body, painting and sculpture in Karla Black’s work
Photograph: Nick Ash/Captain Petzel Gallery/PA Wire/Tate

What to Ask for Others, 2011, shows the ephemeral delicacy of Black's work, which will be representing Scotland at the forthcoming Venice Biennale
Photograph: Tate