say she s won the prize as you said at the age of sixty three i m all in favor of people in the sixty s winning things. the controversy about the turner prize comes really from the nature of the beast in the contemporary art you know you either love it or you don t you know there s always lots of opinions on contemporary art i mean just to give examples of the turner prize winners damien hirst won it with a half a cow and half a cow coffin formaldehyde back in ninety ninety five great controversy then chris ofili won it with a painting that included elephant dung in it three years later that was also the year that. tracey emin had her unmade bed lots of controversy about all these three names and the very famous people in the world this year the winner not so controversial indeed she was the favorite to win and i think very much people thought she d been overlooked in the past so let s find out more about this year s