Four artists have been shortlisted for the Glen Dimplex Artists Award 2001, worth £15,000.
They are Matthew Barney, Richard Billingham, Elizabeth Magill and Susan Philipsz, and they were selected from a field of 110 nominees by an international jury that includes writer and art collector Polly Devlin and composer and performer Gavin Friday. The award is organised by the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
American Matthew Barney is internationally known for his series of surreal fantasy Cremaster films, including Cremaster 2, which was screened in Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, earlier this year.
Richard Billingham, one of the so-called Young British Artists who featured in Sensation, is best known for his candid, warts-and-all photographs of his family at home. They were exhibited at the Douglas Hyde Gallery this year.
Born in Canada, Elizabeth Magill grew up in Northern Ireland. A consistently inventive and arguably underrated painter, she has been based in London for a number of years and was nominated for her part in an exhibition at Belfast's Ormeau Baths Gallery, Places in Mind.
Glasgow-born Susan Philipsz is a sound artist who uses song as a means of drawing listeners "from the here-and-now into a more private and personal state of mind".
