{"id":82146,"date":"2025-12-09T23:31:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=82146"},"modified":"2025-12-10T00:03:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T00:03:41","slug":"nnena-kalu-becomes-first-artist-with-a-learning-disability-to-win-turner-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/09\/nnena-kalu-becomes-first-artist-with-a-learning-disability-to-win-turner-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Nnena Kalu becomes first artist with a learning disability to win Turner Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><h1 class=\"viewsHeaderText\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d1a4d65c19ff532eb7647c497343985426c6f6af\/0_0_3000_2001\/master\/3000.jpg?width=480&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" alt=\"Tight, twisting, ultra-colourful knots \u2026 Kalu\u2019s sculptures.\" \/><\/h1>\n<p>Nnena Kalu has won the 2025 Turner prize for her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/may\/19\/nnena-kalus-turner-prize-watershed-glasgow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">colourful drawings and sculptures<\/a> made from found fabric and VHS tape, becoming the first artist with a learning disability to take home the \u00a325,000 prize.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/nnena-kalu-becomes-first-artist-with-a-learning-disability-to-win-turner-prize\/ar-AA1S1IOM?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=b97d5f45f7ab43a8cb5fd56cda20b65c&amp;ei=49\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Nnena Kalu has won the 2025 Turner prize for her\u00a0colourful drawings and sculptures made from found fabric and VHS tape, becoming the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Nnena-Kalu.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82147,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82146\/revisions\/82147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}