06/23/2026
In celebration of Pride Month and 2SLGBTQIA+ artists and arts leaders, SK Arts is proud to share works from the diverse communities represented in its Permanent Collection.
Turner Prize* was a Regina, Saskatchewan based artist collective that operated between 2008-2012. This work is one of 12 donated to SK Arts' Permanent Collection by Turner Prize*.
As the entity Turner Prize*, artists Jason Cawood, Blair Fornwald and John G. Hampton explored the mysterious, social and translative properties of the "creative act." Their work explored the intangibility of dreams, ideas and histories through their origin (dreamers, artists and events) and their destination (images, writings and other representations). It is the interstices, the shifts and intangible spaces between ideas and representations, which motivated their practice. Their investigations into this liminal space utilized the language of dream analysis and interpretation, ritual and magick, and appropriated the aesthetics of mid-century pop psychology and psychedelia.
Mike's Dream (2009) is part of a body of work titled Other People's Dreams. From the artists' statement:
"Unlike psychoanalytic methods, Turner Prize* does not aim to decode dream imagery or ascribe it any real world referent. Rather, they recognize the impossibility of representing objectively what is wholly subjective. It is the disjuncture between the dream and its representation – or more generally, the disjuncture between experience and representation – that motivated this project ... Like stills from a film that cannot be seen, or a text that cannot be adequately read, each dream image is a translation of a translation of a translation."
Turner Prize*
Mike's Dream, 2009
Photo courtesy of Turner Prize*
