Turner Prize 2011 comes to Gateshead

The shortlisted artists for the Turner Prize 2011 are:

Karla Black, who presents two new works that continue her fascination with the possibilities of sculpture and materials. Doesn't Care In Words 2011 begins with cellophane curtains that partially block the entrance to her gallery. Forced to walk around them, the viewer navigates their paint encrusted forms before an undulating landscape of paper and powder is revealed. More Of The Day 2011, made of coloured cellophane, is suspended from the ceiling as something between a painting and a sculpture. In Black'simmersive and sensory environments, colour, form and scale are foregrounded, prioritising material experience over language.

Martin Boyce, who presents a selection of works including Do Words Have Voices 2011, a sculpture inspired by a library table designed by Jean Prouvé for the Maison de l'Etudiant in Paris and Beyond the Repetition of High Windows, Intersecting Flight Paths and Opinions (A Silent Storm is Painted on the Air), an architectural interventionmade for the exhibition. Suspended from the ceiling, the leaf-like forms that hang from this new work are drawn from the designs of Jöel and Jan Martel. Creating a landscape in the gallery, Boyce's works interrogate urban forms along with the history of Modernist design and its working processes.

Hilary Lloyd, who presents Shirt 2011, Tower Block 2011 andMoon 2011 along with Floor 2011, made for the exhibition. Moon, presented on two LCD monitors, brings multiple shots, ordered within a grid, of the moon passing behind a clock tower. Floor, a three-channel projection of abutted images of a floor, jolts and pulsates, each one repeating endlessly. Lloyd's hyper-aesthetic images are drawn from a very everyday world. She investigates perception, questioning how the act of looking is shaped and constructed. Her modes of presentation are as vital as the images themselves. Projectors, monitors and their supports bring a sculptural presence that controls viewers' navigation of the gallery.

George Shaw, who presents a selection of recent paintings such as The Age of Bullshit 2010 and Landscape with Dog Shit Bin 2010, alongside several new works. His subject, always the housing estate in which he grew up, is rendered in Humbrol enamel to create timeless scenes that are at once autobiographical and universal. They are familiar to those that have grown up in this country, yet have an unnerving disquiet. New paintings, including The Devil Made Me Do It, Shut Up and The Same Old Crap (all 2011) continue his investigation of this psychologically-charged landscape within seemingly traditional bounds.