LONDON – An artist whose work exploring her Scottish Sikh identity includes a vintage Ford car draped in a crocheted doily has won the prestigious British prize Turner Prize Tuesday.

Jasleen Kaur received the £25,000 ($32,000) prize from actor James Norton at a ceremony at the Tate Britain gallery in London, where the four finalists’ works are on display until February.

A jury chaired by Tate Britain director Alex Farquhar praised the way Kaur, 38, “weaves the personal, the political and the spiritual” through “unexpected and playful combinations of materials”.

His winning exhibition mixes sculptures, prints, everyday objects – including family photos, a Ford Escort car and the popular Scottish soda Irn Bru – and immersive music to reflect on his upbringing in Glasgow’s Sikh community.

Three other finalists – Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson and Delaine Le Bas – each received 10,000 pounds ($12,670).

Named in honor of 19th-century landscape painter JMW Turner and founded in 1984 to recognize young artists, the prize has helped make stars of shark painter Damien Hirst, potter Grayson Perry, sculptor Anish Kapoor And filmmaker Steve McQueen.

But it has also been criticized for rewarding impenetrable conceptual work and often sparks debate about the value of modern art, with winners such as Hirst’s “Mother and Child Divided,” composed of two cows cut in half and preserved in formaldehyde, and “Mother and Child Divided” by Martin Creed. Lights on and off” – a room with a light that flickers on and off – drawing scorn from some of the media.

In 2019, the four finalists were declared winners after refusing to compete, “to make a collective statement in the name of the common, multiplicity and solidarity”.

In 2021, the five finalists were collectives rather than individual artists.

The prize was initially open to artists under the age of 50, but there is now no upper age limit.