LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland - French-born film installation artist Laure Prouvost won Britain's prestigious Turner Prize on Monday for a short film clip that in part tells the story of a fictional grandfather digging a hole to Africa and disappearing down it. The Turner winner gets 25,000 pounds, with 5,000 pounds for each of the three runners-up - Scottish conceptual artist David Shrigley, London-born painter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Berlin-based English artist Tino Sehgal, who specialises in creating encounters between visitors to galleries and people he enlists to talk to them. Prouvost said tongue in cheek that she would use the prize money to build a "Big arts centre for grandfather". The Turner Prize, first awarded in 1984 and named after the 19th-century English landscape and seascape painter J.M.W. Turner, has often courted controversy and is regularly lampooned in Britain's tabloid press.
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