The Turnip Prize

The Turnip Prize is a spoof art award of the lesser known Turner Prize.


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Entries are being accepted for this year’s competition from Sun 1st Nov - Sat 21st Nov.

Entries should take the least amount of effort possible to create.

To enter contact:
Trevor 01934 710004 or 07812848011
Or The New Inn, Wedmore.
Alternatively leave your entry at The New Inn, Combe Batch, Wedmore, Somerset. BS28 4DT
Please include your name or pseudonym and contact phone number.

The winner will be announced at The New Inn, Wedmore, Somerset on Mon 7th Dec.

Last year's Turnip Prize was awarded to Ms Drunken Shepherd for her work entitled “Ewe Kip” (A Sleeping Sheep) - Link



More about the Turnip Prize - Wiki. Could we have a Wigan comp?!

I'm extremely jealous of that selection from Timothy Taylor.I will definitely call next time I'm in Somerset.

You'd rather a drink than a win, I-spy? That's a turn up for the booze!

Guilty

I'd sooner

This year's finalists are; -

“Danger Mouse” by P. Enfold
(A computer Mouse with an Electrical Warning Sticker on it)

“Staple Diet” by Art Ist
(A Galvanized Staple on a Plate)

“A Clean Slate” by Asif
(A Piece of Slate with nothing on it)

“Hung like a Donkey” by Pat McGroin
(A Donkey Hanging on a Rope)

“Dismal And” by Tug
(The Symbol ‘&’ Looking Dismal)

“A Roll in the Hay” by Imogen Crees
(A Bread Roll in some Hay)

The presentation for this year’s Turnip Prize will take place at 6.30pm today.

The World Famous “Turnip Prize” is a spoof of the lesser-known Turner Prize and has been running for seventeen years. It is awarded to the person who has created something that they perceive to be crap art using the least amount of effort possible.

jo anne is it open to Swedes.

And why not, Graneyjoseph? I'm excitedly waiting to find out which one's the winner.


@TheWesternGaz

It could be my late entry - the odd sock

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John-Paul 'JP' Coetzee, an electrical engineer from Bristol has won the prestigious Turnip Prize.

He took home the trophy - a turnip nailed to a block of wood - for his seminal piece "Dismal And."

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