Turner Prize 1988 artists: Boyd Webb

Though trained as a sculptor, he chose to work with photography, concentrating at first on realistic scenes with curious details and odd juxtapositions of objects. He developed his mature style in the 1980s, creating purely theatrical and artificial images from constructed sets and actors, without resorting to trick photographic techniques. Works such as Renounce (1984; Sydney, A.G. NSW), with their incongruous objects and bizarre setting, are designed to puzzle the viewer, so demanding further reflection.