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Jesse Darling, a sculptor who makes scrappy installations out of mangled objects, won the Turner Prize on Tuesday at a ceremony at the Towner Eastbour

Darling, a multidisciplinary creative, has won the top award for British artists, exhibiting a “delirious” installation that shows British society in disarray.

Known for working with unconventional materials such as hazard tape, Darling pipped Ghislaine Leung, Rory Pilgrim and Barbara Walker to the US$30,000 award.

Darling's multidisciplinary practice reflects on class divisions and challenges conventional notions of British identity.

British artist Jesse Darling won the prestigious Turner Prize on Tuesday for his sculptures and installations that invoke societal breakdown.

The award follows a year of installations by the artist that critique the inhospitable nature of the UK state.

The Royal Academy of Arts has revealed the committee for the upcoming 256th Summer Exhibition................

The artist won the major British art award on Tuesday for works that warp commonplace items into “something you’ve never seen before.”

The Oxford-born artist won the £25,000 award for sculptures made of commonplace objects conveying ‘the messy reality of life’, and unsettling ‘notions of labour, class, Britishness and power’

British artist Jesse Darling won the prestigious Turner Prize on Tuesday for his sculptures and installations that invoke societal breakdown.The Turner Prize board praised his work as conveying a "familiar yet delirious world" that "unsettles perceived notions of labour, class, Britishness and power".