Wallinger's world

British artist Mark Wallinger was nominated for the Turner prize in 1995, but he lost out to Damien Hirst Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

Mark Wallinger was awarded the prize by actor and art collector Dennis Hopper at last night's ceremony at Tate Liverpool Photograph: Frank Baron/Guardian

Wallinger's 154-minute film, Sleeper, showed him walking around a deserted gallery in Berlin dressed in a bear costume. The artist's work alluded to the cold war and the history of 'sleeper' spies, as well as the symbol of Berlin - the bear Photograph: © Mark Wallinger

The prize was officially awarded for State Britain - Wallinger's meticulous re-creation of peace campaigner Brian Haw's anti-war protest in Parliament Square. Wallinger is seen here in front of his installation at Tate Britain earlier this year. The work is now in storage Photograph: Cathal McNaughton/PA

The Importance of Being Earnest in Esperanto, 1996, by Mark Wallinger, (videoprojection, 100 chairs), on display at the Museum for Contemporary Art in Basel, Switzerland in June 2006 Photograph: Georgios Kefalas/EPA

View of Wallinger's Ecce Homo, a statue of Christ that occupied Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth during 1999 Photograph: Graham Turner/Guardian

Wallinger said his Trafalgar Square sculpture of Christ was not meant to be perverse or tongue in cheek. 'I wanted to show him as an ordinary human being. Jesus was at the very least a political leader of an oppressed people and I think he has a place here in front of all these oversized imperial symbols' Photograph: Graham Turner/Guardian

In 2003, Wallinger decorated Tate Britain's Christmas tree with rosaries. The tree he chose was an aspen (populus tremula), which is the variety of wood used to make the cross on which Christ was crucified Photograph: Sarah Lee/Guardian

An installation by Mark Wallinger for the Thatcher exhibition at the Blue Gallery in 2003. The exhibition explored the legacy of Margaret Thatcher and included work by past Turner prizewinners Martin Creed and Keith Tyson Photograph: Graham Turner/Guardian

Mark Wallinger and Toby Chamberlain placed a replica Tardis on the lawn of the Museum of Natural History in Oxford in May 2001. Wallinger also made a mirrored and stainless steel version of Dr Who's 'police box' entitled Time and Relative Dimensions in Space the same year Photograph: Graham Turner/Guardian