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Turning the tables: Turner prize 2011 winner Martin Boyce - in pictures

Turner prize awards: Turner prize awards
Mario Testino, left, looks on as a streaker tries to get on stage at the Turner ceremony, but is stopped by a security officer Photograph: Scott Heppell/AP
Turner prize awards: Turner prize awards
Photographer Mario Testino, right, stands with Martin Boyce, winner of the Turner prize for his piece Do Words Have Voices Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA
Turner prize awards: Turner prize awards
Artist Martin Boyce won the Turner prize for his piece, Do Words Have Voices, at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA
Turner prize awards: Turner prize awards
The £25,000 first prize was awarded to Martin Boyce live on Channel 4 Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA
Turner Prize 2011: Martin Boyce  Do Words Have Voices 2011
Do Words Have Voices, 2011, by Martin Boyce
The centrepiece of Boyce's Turner show is a graffiti-covered table etched with childish scrawls, as if from an old school desk. The table is inspired by modernist French designer Jean Prouvé
Photograph: Colin Davison /BALTIC & the artist
Turner Prize 2011: Turner Prize 2011 - Do Words Have Voices by Martin Boyce
Do Words Have Voices, 2011, by Martin Boyce
A suspended ceiling – made to resemble trees – dapples random geometric reflections on to the walls. Adrian Searle says: 'I'm haunted by his room, with the way a hanging mobile entwines itself with the library table, like a dangling thought, the room sweeping away into a kind of indoor autumn. His art is an elegy to modernist purity'
Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian
Turner Prize 2011: Turner Prize 2011 - Do Words Have Voices, 2011 by Martin Boyce
Detail from Do Words Have Voices, 2011, by Martin Boyce
Boyce's is a nostalgic take on modernism: full of geometric patterns, but playfully distorted and updated
Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian
Turner Prize 2011: Turner Prize 2011 - Martin Boyce
Our Love is Like the Flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours, 2002, by Martin Boyce
Boyce's installation at the Frieze art fair, 2003
Photograph: Martin Boyce/The Modern Institute
Turner Prize 2011: Turner Prize 2011 - No Refelctions by Martin Boyce
No Reflections by Martin Boyce
Boyce's 2009-2010 show at Dundee Contemporary Arts. Boyce represented Scotland at the 2009 Venice Biennale, where this series was first shown
Photograph: Gilmar Ribeiro/Dundee Contemporary Arts
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