RCA graduate Jasleen Kaur announced as winner of the Turner Prize 2024

Jasleen Kaur, who graduated from the RCA’s MA Jewellery & Metal programme in 2010, was announced as the winner of the Turner Prize for 2024 by actor James Norton at a ceremony held at Tate Britain in London.

Jasleen’s work celebrates the Scottish Sikh community through playful artworks featuring everyday objects like doilies, vintage cars, family photos and Irn Bru.

She was awarded the Turner Prize for her solo exhibition Alter Altar at Tramway in Glasgow.

The Turner Prize jury selected Jasleen as the winner from a shortlist which also included Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson and Delaine Le Bas.

Jonathan Boyd, Head of Applied Art at the Royal College of Art, said: 'The MA Jewellery & Metal staff and students were absolutely delighted to see the well-deserved recognition the Turner Prize offers to alumna Jasleen Kaur for her exceptional art practice. Over the last 15 years, Jasleen’s work has evolved from an interrogation of the ‘matters of things’ to the ‘things that matter,’ transitioning from material narratives to the immateriality of the social and political, and from the individual artefact to the interconnected and communal. 

'Walking through the Turner Prize exhibition, Jasleen’s work offers a powerfully sensorial experience, combining things, images and sound. Her installation is a continual oscillation between material and immaterial tensions, blending the ready-made with designs that provoke explicit commentaries. The audience's attention is continually drawn in different directions as her ideas interweave the subjective, the communal, the caring, and often humorous in an urgent critique of hierarchical and institutional narratives of colonialism.

'As an artist, Jasleen exemplifies the values that MA Jewellery & Metal staff and students strive to uphold, continuing and evolving the ethos of making-things-in-the-world.'