works like damien hirst‘s pickled cows, tracy min's unmade bed, and martin creed's lights going on andlly art? but, this year, the turner prize has grown up a bit. for a start, a change in the rules means two of the artists are over 50. the techniques are more traditional — printmaking, photography, painting. and the subject matter is more political. one thing that started to take me down this road was this idea that it's someone forgetting where they were. the history of people from the caribbean, or from the rest of the world in britain, is they couldn't forget the way they were. they had to be constantly aware. painter anderson is one of four shortlisted artists vying for the £25,000 prize. next, german printmaker and multimedia artist andrea, examining issues like shame and baking. there's hardly any art historical research done on the iconography of the beggar. and it's important to me, coming from my interest in shame. it made me interested in the discourse of it in art. she looks at black identity. sometimes the pattern is on the newspaper to give the black person some kind of t