Elizabeth Price on her Turner prize 2012 win | Art and design | The Guardian

Elizabeth Price on her Turner prize 2012 win | Art and design | The Guardian: "There have been 28 winners of the Turner prize, but Price is only the fifth woman. Why? "Because it's difficult to have a career as an artist, and in every situation where it's difficult to have a career, it's even harder for women, for all the other reasons that it's harder in other fiercely contested fields. For women who have children, the economic difficulty of sustaining a life as an artist maybe makes it impossible. There's no maternity leave, there's no pension." Price has no children, but she does have a big family of proud siblings who gathered at Monday's prize ceremony. The award has, she says, involved her not-especially-arty parents in "this slightly cranky thing that I did" – an experience that has been "completely unexpected and very pleasurable"."

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