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How Turner Prize winner Nnena Kalu is inspiring others

BBC News 15 Dec 2025
Other disabled artists are looking at Nnena Kalu .
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Nnena Kalu Wins 2025 Turner Prize

Billboard 15 Dec 2025
Nnena Kau is the 2025 winner of the Turner Prize. She is the first learning-disabled artist to win ....
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Nnena Kalu is first artist with a learning disability to win the prestigious Turner Prize

Black Hills Pioneer 15 Dec 2025
Scottish artist Nnena Kalu has won the Turner Prize for her vivid abstract drawings and sculptures. She is the first artist with a learning disability to receive Britain's most famous visual art award. Kalu, 59, who has autism, received the ....
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Nnena Kalu’s triumph for neurodivergent art has rattled a few cages. So let me put ...

The Guardian 14 Dec 2025
The artist’s winning Turner prize entry has been hailed for its life and energy, but to some dissenting voices its challenge to the status quo is hard to stomach. Nnena Kalu is an artist. She is also, as of this week, a winner of the Turner prize.
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Nnena Kalu’s triumph for neurodivergent art has rattled a few cages. So let me put those carping critics right

The Observer 14 Dec 2025
Nnena Kalu is an artist. She is also, as of this week, a winner of the Turner prize ... They shouldn’t be in the same building.” ... Nnena Kalu, centre, is announced as the winner of the 2025 Turner prize ... ‘Nnena Kalu was ready for this – nobody else was’ ... .
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The Guardian view on Nnena Kalu’s historic Turner prize win: breaking a glass ceiling

The Observer 12 Dec 2025
This year it has achieved both ... Glasgow-born Nnena Kalu took the award for her colourful, cocoon-like sculptures made from VHS tape, clingfilm and other abandoned materials, along with her large swirling vortex drawings ... This is what art can do ... Share ... .
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The Guardian view on Nnena Kalu’s historic Turner prize win: breaking a glass ceiling | Editorial

The Guardian 12 Dec 2025
The UK art world is finally becoming more inclusive ... Glasgow-born Nnena Kalu took the award for her colourful, cocoon-like sculptures made from VHS tape, clingfilm and other abandoned materials, along with her large swirling vortex drawings ... ....
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Scottish-Nigerian Artist Nnena Kalu Wins Prestigious Turner Prize

This Day 11 Dec 2025
Nnena Kalu, a 59-year old Scottish-Nigerian artist, has made history as the first artist with a learning disability to win the prestigious Turner Prize ... Charlotte Hollinshead of ActionSpace said Nnena had “made history.”.
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Nnena Kalu has won the 2025 Turner prize – working with her has inspired my ...

The Conversation 11 Dec 2025
The 2025 Turner prize has been won by Nnena Kalu. It’s a historic win and a groundbreaking moment in the prestigious prize’s history ... Kalu’s practice is defined by repetition, rhythm, and layering ... I was completely hooked ... Sign up here ... .
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Autistic Scottish artist Nnena Kalu smashes Turner Prize 'glass ceiling'

Index-Journal 10 Dec 2025
Scotland's Nnena Kalu took home the Turner Prize on Tuesday, with the autistic artist beating four competitors including an Iraqi painter to the prestigious contemporary art award ....
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Autistic artist Nnena Kalu breaks barriers with Turner Prize win

Daily Sabah 10 Dec 2025
Scotland's Nnena Kalu took home the Turner Prize on Tuesday, with the autistic artist beating four competitors, including an Iraqi painter, to the prestigious contemporary art ....
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