The winner of the 2011 Turner Prize for contemporary art will be announced later today.
This year the event is being held at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. It will be the first time a non-TATE gallery hosts the event since the Prize was established in 1984.
Scottish sculptor Martin Boyce is the bookies favourite, with fellow sculptor Karla Black, video artist Hilary Lloyd and painter George Shaw the other nominees.
Each year the Prize is judged by an independent jury of art directors and curators with the winner receiving £25,000.
Previous winners include Antony Gormley (1994), Damien Hurst (1995) and Grayson Perry (2003).
