Tate Gallery has announced that Tomma Abts has been awarded with the Turner Prize

The Tate Gallery has announced this December 4 th 2006 that Tomma Abts has been awarded with the prestigious (and sometimes controversial) Turner Prize, worth £25,000.

As the Tate Gallery press note quotes: “Tomma Abts was shortlisted for her solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Basel , Switzerland , and greengrassi, London . Abts’s densely worked canvases take shape through a gradual process of layering and bear the visible traces of their making. The jury admired the rigor and consistency of Abts’s painting, in which compelling images reveal their complexity slowly over time.”