Array Collective are announced as the winner of the Turner Prize 2021, the leading international award for contemporary art, at Coventry Cathedral, Coventry, England, Wednesday December 1, 2021. An 11-person collective from Belfast that aims to transcend Northern Ireland’s political and religious divides has won the U.K.’s prestigious Turner Prize for art. The Array Collective took the 25,000 pound ($33,000) prize on Wednesday for “The Druithaib’s Ball”, a recreation of a traditional Irish shebeen, or speakeasy full of references to 100 years of Northern Ireland history. (Photo by Matt Alexander/PA Wire via AP Photo)
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