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  • Mark Wallinger wins 2007 Turner Prize (Man in Bear Suit wins Britain's top arts prize)

    12/03/2007 4:32:18 PM PST · by mojito · 24 replies · 80+ views
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 12/3/2007 | Nigel Reynolds
    The conceptual artist Mark Wallinger, otherwise known as the Dancing Bear, has won the £25,000 Turner Prize for his monumental political work, State Britain, a recreation of the one-man Parliament Square anti-Iraq war protest destroyed by Tony Blair's government. The installation, which was shown at Tate Britain at the start of the year, was Wallinger's 40-metre long replica, complete with banners and tarpaulin shelter, of the mini-peace camp run by Brian Haw opposite the Houses of Parliament from June, 2001, until it was demolished by the police in May, 2006, under new powers banning protests within one kilometre of the...