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Veronica Ryan, a sculptor who focuses on peaceful moments, has been awarded this year's Turner Prize.
Wednesday saw the presentation of Britain's highest honor in the visual arts to a New Yorker whose work was featured in the current Whitney Biennial.

Veronica Ryan, a talented sculptor, struggled for much of her career to be recognized for her work. Last year, she revealed to The Guardian that she frequently lacked the financial resources to cover basic living expenses, forcing her to scrounge for supplies in order to create new works.

Since then, Ryan's status in the art world has shifted significantly. On Wednesday, the artist was awarded the Turner Prize, the highest honor in the British art world. This year's Whitney Biennial included his intriguing seed and fruit sculptures.

The announcement was made at a ceremony held in Liverpool's St. George's Hall. This year, there are four artists competing for the prize, and their work is currently on display across the city.

Tate Britain director and panel member Alex Farquharson said in an interview that 66-year-old Ryan won because his work "gives fresh poetry" to things that are "normally overlooked and typically thrown aside." He speculated that among recent prize winners, hers was the "quietest and slowest burn."

They don't always happen early in an artist's career," he remarked. By the time she was in her 60s, Ryan's writing had entered a new phase, encompassing themes of migration, survival, healing, and parenthood.

New York-based artist Ryan took home 25,000 British pounds (roughly $30,000) after competing against Ingrid Pollard, a trailblazing Black female photographer; Heather Phillipson, an environmentally conscious artist who has made several high-profile public artworks; and Sin Wai Kin, a nonbinary artist whose films sometimes include elements of traditional Chinese opera and drag.

The awarding of the Turner Prize has been a highlight of the art world since its inception in 1984. Famous painters like Anish Kapoor and Steve McQueen are among the past winners. However, it has gained increasing notoriety in recent years for sparking debates in Britain's art community, with some critics in the press claiming that the nominees are more activists than artists.

The Northern Irish group Array Collective won last year's award for their use of humorous placards and other props during political protests.

Even though most of the top critics preferred Ryan's work, many of them predicted Phillipson would win. Before the winner was announced, reviewer and frequent prize skeptic Waldemar Januszczak said in The Sunday Times that Ryan was "the real deal; a clever, secretive, poetic artist."

In 1956, Ryan was born on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. She and her family emigrated to the United Kingdom when she was young. She was the only Black artist included in a Tate display of young sculptors in 1984, although she has only recently become widely known.

She also exhibited a big sculpture in London comprised of soursop, breadfruit, and custard apple, in addition to the Whitney Biennial. The three fruits were chosen to symbolize the candy that children of Caribbean immigrants to Britain enjoyed.

Although Ryan's work is "quite different" from that of other previous winners, who have primarily dealt with activism, according to Farquharson, this does not indicate a shift in the British art industry. The juries that award prizes, he explained, rotate annually. According to me, art rarely evolves.