Tribute to the late Queen wins Turnip Prize for ‘c**p art using the least possible amount of effort’

A tribute to the late Queen titled ‘Cue Jumpers’ has won the spoof Turnip Prize for ‘c**p art using the least amount of effort possible’. 

The winning entry – a pool cue and two tiny red and blue jumpers – was a reference to politicians and celebrities who beat the queues to view the late Queen when she was lying in state. 

The world famous annual award – in its 24th year – attracted 69 entries and is designed to satirise the Tate Gallery’s Turner Prize by rewarding deliberately bad modern art. 

This year’s winning entry  – ‘Cue Jumpers’ – for the spoof award was a pool cue and two tiny red jumpers by cinema projectionist Richard Woolford (pictured). The entry was a reference to politicians and celebrities who beat the queues to view the late Queen when she was lying in state

The world famous annual award which attracted 69 entries is designed to satirise the Tate Gallery’s Turner Prize by rewarding deliberately bad modern art

The prize goes to someone who ‘created something that they perceive to be c**p art using the least amount of effort possible’. 

This year’s winner was Richard Woolford, a cinema projectionist from Tooting, London, who is also a part time comedian. 

Richard won a turnip sat on a rusty six inch nail and wall plaque for his home. The winner will go to the host pub, the New Inn at Wedmore, Somerset, to judge the winner of next year’s contest.    

Other entries this year which made it to the finals included an entry called ‘RIP Elizabeth the 2nd’ by Charlie King which was a torn 2nd class stamp

Another entry to make it to the finals – by Ivor Bolshoi Liebherr – was a piece named ‘Ukraine’ which featured a yellow plastic crane carrying s yew sprig

One entry called  ‘Red Tape’ by .Gov was a reel of red insulation tape. Every year the prize goes to someone who ‘created something that they perceive to be c**p art using the least amount of effort possible’

‘Plane Sailing’ by Elizabeth Trim was another of the entrants for the 2022 Turnip Prize which rewards deliberately bad modern art

Other entries this year included ‘RIP Elizabeth the 2nd’ which was a torn 2nd class stamp, and an entry named ‘Ukraine’ which featured a yellow plastic crane carrying s yew sprig.  

Organiser Trevor Prideaux said there was a full house at the pub and said the contest pokes fun at the much more serious Turner Prize. 

Last year’s winning entry was a soft toy entitled ‘Panda Mick’ by a 69-year-old architect for his take on the word ‘pandemic’.