In Pictures: Artist Jasleen Kaur wins Turner Prize with artwork showcasing Glasgow's Sikh community

Happy Valley actor James Norton announced the winner in a ceremony held at Tate Britain. The five jury members chose Kaur for “her ability to gather different voices through unexpected and playful combinations of material, from Irn-Bru to family photographs and a vintage Ford Escort, locating moments of resilience and possibility”.

Within her work, Jasleen Kaur makes installations by gathering and remaking objects from everyday life to “renegotiate tradition and agreed myths, exploring cultural memory and political belonging. Kaur questions how the narratives we inherit circulate in discreet ways and, in turn, shape us. While family and community are present in Kaur’s work, she is most interested in how these intimacies meet wider sociopolitical structures.”

Kaur says that her upbringing in Glasgow, growing up in family-run hardware stores and cash and carries, shaped her approach to thinking through objects and materials: “I'm drawn to things that are hidden, like the intangible bits of history.”

The 38-year-old artist was nominated for an exhibition that was held at the Tramway in her home city last year. The display, a series of installations exploring religious identities, politics and history, makes heavy use of different sounds, embedded into the exhibition by way of worship bells, Sufi Islamic devotional music, Indian harmonium, and pop tracks.

Adrian Searle in The Guardian said: “I wanted Jasleen Kaur to win as soon as I’d seen this year’s prize show. Her work made me come back again, and simply to be there on her gigantic synthetic Axminster carpet.

“How welcoming Kaur’s installation is. The carpet is an invitation to sit and linger, for the eye and the mind to rove. The translucent false ceiling above is like Glasgow’s changeable sky. Instead of clouds, objects swim above us, a litter of memories along with the rubbish.

“Being here is like drifting through the afternoon in an unfamiliar city park. Who knows what might pass by and claim our attention.”

This year the arts prize, named after British painter JMW Turner, which awards £25,000 to its winner, is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Established in 1984, the prize is awarded each year to a British artist for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work.

The exhibition of the four shortlisted artists – Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson, Delaine Le Bas, and Kaur – is at Tate Britain until February 16 2025.