Turner Prize shortlist is due

Four artists will vie for the £25,000 award.

For the first time in its history, the prize will be presented at the Tate Gallery in Liverpool rather than London.

It will be hosted there as a curtain-raiser for the city becoming the European Capital of Culture in 2008.

Works by the four nominated artists will be exhibited at Tate Liverpool's Albert Dock Gallery.

The Turner Prize was founded in 1984 and is awarded annually to a British-based artist.

The UK's foremost contemporary art award, it always provokes lively debate.

Last year it was won by a painter, German-born Tomma Abts, whose work was unusually uncontroversial.

In 2005 the winner was Simon Starling, who dismantled a shed, made it into a boat, then turned it back into a shed again.