Article: Prizes.(ARTNOTES)(deciBel Awards for ethnic artists )(Shirin Neshat wins Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize)(Brief article)

The second deciBel Awards for Artists were announced last month, with six of the shortlisted artists--Bernd Behr, Rosalind Nashashibi, Harold Offeh, The Otolith Group, Hiraki Sawa and Linette Yiadom-Boakye--each receiving 30,000 [pounds sterling]. The prize is open to UK-based artists of Asian, Black African or Black Caribbean descent, and is intended to create 'a more accurate reflection of the diversity of contemporary British society'. Selected by a panel that included Okwui Enwezor, David Thorp, Sally O'Reilly, Nav Haq, Sally Talent and Keith Piper, the awards provide a 'no-strings-attached' period of time to research and develop new areas of artistic work (akin to ...

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