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Who is Jesse Darling, this year's Turner Prize winner?

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Oxford-born, Berlin-based visual artist Jesse Darling has just won this year's prestigious Turner Prize. Previous winners include Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Rachel Whiteread, and Anthony Gormley.

Accepting the award, Darling championed the importance of the arts, criticising former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for paving "the way for the greatest trick that the Tories ever pulled, which was to convince the working people of Britain that study, self-expression, and what the broadsheet supplements describe as culture, is only for particular kinds of people from particular socioeconomic backgrounds."

"I just want to say don’t buy in, I’m talking to the public, I’m talking to the British public, don’t buy in, it’s for

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