Some might argue that Wallinger's work in 1995 should equally have won the Turner Prize, but there is no doubt that his 'State Britain' work was a firm favourite and a deserved winner this year. The work was a recreation of Brian Haw's peace campaign, from the banners and plackards to the tarpaulin and tea making area. Everything has been painstakingly reconstructed and Wallinger has added to the politics of the piece by including the demarkation point a kilometer from the Houses of parliament, within which free protest is not permitted since the introduction of the 'Serious Organised Crime and Plolice Act' of 2006.
