Jasleen Kaur wins 2024 Turner prize with fusion of Sufi music and Irn-Bru

Jasleen Kaur has won the 2024 Turner prize for work that animates everyday objects to reflect the pluralities of identity and community.

- Nadia Khomami

Kaur, 38, the youngest artist on this year's shortlist, was nominated for her exhibition Alter Altar at Tramway in Glasgow, which featured a range of sculptures and soundscapes.

Among the items included was a red Ford Escort convertible covered in a huge doily, a reference to her father's first car and to Indians who migrated to Britain and worked in textile factories.

The actor James Norton presented the award to Kaur last night at a ceremony at Tate Britain, in London, marking the prize's return to the gallery after six years. She will receive £25,000 in prize money.

Kaur was commended for the considered way in which she weaves together the personal, political and spiritual in her work, creating a visual and aural experience that invoked solidarity and joy.

The jury praised her ability to gather different voices through playful combinations of materials, from Irn-Bru bottles to old family photographs. Her exhibition featured worship bells, Sufi Islamic devotional music, Indian harmonium tunes, and pop tracks. Meanwhile, an acrylic "sky" littered with everyday ephemera was suspended over an oversized Axminster carpet.