A car draped in a gigantic crocheted doily with Grandmaster Flash blaring from the stereo earned its creator this year’s Turner prize.
Jurors praised Jasleen Kaur’s “unexpected and playful combinations of material” including the textile-clad replica of her family’s old car.
The Ford Escort Cabriolet Mk3 and other objects from Kaur’s childhood with her Sikh family in Glasgow — including a can of Irn-Bru and an Axminster carpet — impressed the Turner prize jury, said Tate Britain’s director and chairman, Alex Farquharson.
He said there there had been “strong support in the end for Jasleen winning”, and that they had been impressed with how the 38-year-old “transforms a whole range of everyday objects, some vernacular and throwaway, into animated environments” with the help of music