Tate Britain's exhibition of artists shortlisted for the Turner Prize

As the Turner Prize returns to London, the verdict is in from art critics - and the news is not what the quartet of nominees might have hoped for. 

A shortlist including Filipino artist Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson, Delaine Le Bas, and Jasleen Kaur, was branded 'conventional and uptight' by the Telegraph's chief art critic Alastair Sooke. 

Sooke went on to described the latest edition of the prize as 'as raucous as a drinks party at a seminary', while Laura Freeman at The Times bashed the prize as becoming 'knackered, creaking and past it'. 

However not everyone had a negative outlook on the recent shortlist, with Adrian Searle from the Guardian hailing as a 'show filled with cultural collisions, shifts in register and wildly divergent intentions.'

As Tate Britain prepares to unveil its latest exhibition, MailOnline takes a look at the shortlisted Turner Prize 2024, with the winner set to receive £25,000.

Pio Abad, 41 

Pio Abad, 41, born in the Philippine capital Manila in 1983, lives and works in London, and has developed an eclectic range of skills, including drawing, painting, textiles, installation and text. 

Abad began his art studies at the University of the Philippines, before receiving a BA from Glasgow School of Art, and then moving on to obtain a master's degree from the Royal Academy Schools, London.

The legacy of colonialism is a recurring theme in Abad's work, with the artist frequently making connections between different ideologies and cultures via detailed drawings of British museum artefacts.

The exhibition for which he earned his nomination, entitled To Those Sitting in Darkness, was originally staged at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

Currently, his latest instalment 'Kiss the Hand You Cannot Bite' is part of 40th anniversary exhibition at Tate Britain. 

The three meter concrete bracelet draws critic to the life of former Filipina dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his notoriously lavish wife Imelda.

The sculpture is a 'reimagination' of the dictator's wife's extravagant 30-carat ruby, diamond and pearl bracelet according to Abad. 

 Delaine Le Bas, 59

The work of Delaine Le Bas, born in Worthing in 1965, has been deeply influenced by her Romani roots.

As one might expect from a woman who joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament aged just 13, her work is invariably politically charged.

She has reimagined her section of the gallery, costume, film, sculpture and painted fabrics in recapturing her nominated piece Delainia: 17071965 Unfolding.

Taking up three sections, her pieces tackle thEmes of loss, renewal, death, whilst also reflecting on her Roma history as well as tacking on various mythologies. 

For instance, her Marley 2023 sculpture recaptures Dickens' Christmas Carol chacter as a bringer of bedlam.

Claudette Johnson, 65 

In her bid for the Turner Prize, Claudette Johsnon has put forward a range of her works from The Courtauld Galler in London as well as those in Ortuzar Projects, New York. 

The British visual artist, who originally hails from Manchester, is renowned for her large-scale drawings of Black women as well as her participation in the BLK Art Group. 

Johnson often takes to utilising gouache, oil, water colours as well as pastels to portray distinct figures of black women and men, whilst regularly portraying both family and friends. 

She uses her pieces to take on the marginalisation of black people in Wester art settings, in attempt to change perspectives.

Jasleen Kaur, 38   

Born in Glasgow but living in London, Jasleen Kaur seeks to use her art to portray what is being withheld from immediate view.

Her current Turner Prize nomination was initially held at Tramway in Glasgow. 

In her array of works Kaur builds sculptures out of reused objects, whilst bringing them to life with the use of sound. 

Among her works includes, family photos, a harmonium, kinetic workshop bells and an Axminster carpet.

Music is often used as a key feature in Kaur's work to portray her upbringing in the Scottish city of Glasgow as well as hidden pasts. 

In her piece Sociomobile, Kaur draped a large dolly crocheted from cotton over a vintage red Ford Escort whilst using her own musical memories to take up space.

Rosie Cooper, director of Wysing Arts Centre, who sits on the judging panel, said Kaur sees the red sports car as a 'representation of her dad's first car and his migrant desires' and it 'blasted snippets of uplifting pop songs referencing freedom and liberation throughout the space'. 

She had previously showcased her work at the Victoria and Albert Museum by looking at popular Indian cinema through Yoorup.

Alex Farquharson, director of Tate Britain and chairman of the Turner Prize jury, said: 'It is an honour to announce such a fantastic shortlist of artists and I cannot wait to see their exhibition at Tate Britain this autumn.

'All four of them make work that is full of life. They show how contemporary art can fascinate, surprise and move us, and how it can speak powerfully of complex identities and memories, often through the subtlest of details.'