It could only be Turner: Suspended ball of plastic is favourite to win prize
It has confounded Britons year after year.
And if bewilderment is what you’re looking for, the latest Turner Prize shortlist certainly won’t disappoint.
Folds of plastic sheeting hanging from the ceiling, projectors with close-ups of a naked man and metal sculptures resembling a torture-chamber bedstead don’t appear the most obvious of art works.
![Shortlisted: Karla Black's work 'What To Ask For Others' looks like a large pink plastic bag but is one of the contenders for the Turner Prize](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/05/04/article-1383555-0BE78B3F00000578-867_634x394.jpg)
Shortlisted: Karla Black's work 'What To Ask For Others' looks like a large pink plastic bag but is one of the contenders for the Turner Prize
![Hilary Lloyd's projected images explore the naked form](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/05/04/article-1383555-0BE782C400000578-833_306x423.jpg)
![Other works by Carla Black include 'Help is not appealing'- which appears to look like a scrunched up piece of paper](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/05/04/article-1383555-0BE78BBB00000578-434_306x423.jpg)
Creative mind: The 'pink plastic bag' work was designed by Karla Black, who also created the artwork, known as 'Help is not appealing', on the right. Left: Hilary Lloyd's projected images explore the naked form
In fact, visitors may be left wondering where the art actually is.
Karla Black’s suspended paper and plastic sheeting, called What To Ask For Others, is the bookies’ favourite.
The 38-year-old, from Glasgow, is best known for a sculpture composed of mud, compost and top soil – with hairspray to keep it in place. Miss Black is described as using ‘insubstantial and often surprising materials’ such as bath bombs and lipstick, with a ‘vulnerable beauty’.
![Evoking the urban landscape: Martin Boyce's creation 'A library of leaves' is among the entrants for Turner Prize and inspired by a 1925 modernist exhibition](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/05/04/article-1383555-0BE786C500000578-711_634x356.jpg)
Evoking the urban landscape: Martin Boyce's creation 'A library of leaves' is among the entrants for Turner Prize and inspired by a 1925 modernist exhibition
Martin Boyce is responsible for the sculpture A Library Of Leaves. The 43-year-old who lives in Glasgow, is inspired by 1920s Modernism and deals with ideas about architecture and nature. Hilary Lloyd, 46, uses multiple projectors to show different close-ups of a naked male for her work Man.
This year’s exhibition is held at the Baltic gallery in Gateshead, from October 21. The winner, announced in December, receives £25,000. The prize, established in 1984, is awarded to a British artist under 50, for an exhibition or other presentation of work in the last year.
![Voyeuristic: Hilary Lloyd's creations use projectors and video screens to show scenes including construction sites and workshops](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/05/04/article-1383555-0BE784FD00000578-612_634x402.jpg)
Voyeuristic: Hilary Lloyd's creations use projectors and video screens to show scenes including construction sites and workshops
![Childhood memory: George Shaw uses only Humbrol enamel paint to recreate scenes from his childhood in Coventry](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/05/04/article-1383555-0BE78A7200000578-935_634x429.jpg)
Childhood memory: George Shaw uses only Humbrol enamel paint to recreate scenes from his childhood in Coventry
Previous winners include Grayson Perry and Damien Hirst.
Last year, the prize was won by an eight-minute recording of a folk song played to an empty room.
Painter George Shaw also makes this year’s shortlist. His pictures of everyday scenes from his childhood home on a Coventry estate are described by one of the jury who chose the shortlist as being ‘marked by an unavoidable and undeniable sense of foreboding and danger’.
More unkind critics might dismiss it as boring.
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