Artwork inspired by the al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is one of the four pieces nominated for this year's £40,000 Turner Prize 2004.

Photo: Langlands and Bell's work has been shown at the Imperial War Museum

The four artists on the shortlist are Kutlug Ataman, Jeremy Deller, Langlands and Bell and Yinka Shonibare. The installation of video and photos from Afghanistan by Langlands and Bell, is called The House of Osama Bin Laden. The controversial UK prize is also very prestigious and was won last year by transvestite potter Grayson Perry. Kutlug Ataman, a Turkish artist who lives in the UK, is nominated for his "poignant and incisive video installations".

December prize

His work was shown at the Istanbul Biennial last year, and he has also been shown at other European venues. Jeremy Deller is shortlisted for Memory Bucket, which is a video installation based in the US city of San Antonio. It shows the artist's journeys through the state of Texas. Turner Prize organisers said the work was a "personal investigation of the social and cultural make-up that defines different societies". Yinka Shonibare is a London artist born to Nigerian parents who spent much of his childhood in Nigeria. He uses African fabric in his work, which has included the exhibition Double Dutch at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Work from the shortlisted artists will be shown in an exhibition at Tate Britain from 20 October to 23 December, with the winner announced on 6 December. The prize is open to any artist under the age of 50 who is either working in the UK or is British and working abroad. Past winners have included Gilbert and George, Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley and Damien Hirst-BBCNews.

Turner winner faces media whirl

Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry has described the first few hours of his new-found media fame after lifting the UK arts world's most prestigious award.

Photo: Perry said he was pictured "like a politician" with his wife and daughter.

Perry told BBC News Online he would have to get used to becoming "fashionable" now he had become part of the British artistic establishment. "It is going to be odd," said Perry, who used some of his prize-winning pottery to comment on the UK art scene. "I'll have to pick on someone else and find something else to rail against." Perry, a transvestite who wore a frilly dress at Sunday night's awards ceremony, said he had enjoyed his first post-Turner encounters with newspapers and broadcasters. Speaking to BBC News Online on Monday, he said: "I like the contrast between all the different journalists. This morning I came here to do Today (on BBC Radio 4), followed by breakfast TV. It was like bad cop, good cop. "Then I was doorstepped by the Daily Express when I got home. The tabloids are pretty positive this morning. The Sun was one of the most positive. It wasn't Grayson Perry, transvestite. It was Grayson Perry, dad, 43, with his family - like a politician. Although I was in the dress." Perry said he believed his new status would allow him the opportunity to turn down work he would previously have taken on. "It gives me power," he said. "I'm not very good at saying no, and this will get the 'no' muscle into shape. "That's the biggest downside - you can promise people things and do all the rubbish jobs, and not do the good ones. You have to become mercenary."Before Sunday night, his ceramic vases with their disturbing and funny words and images were already selling at up to £40,000 each. So it is a case of him naming his price from now on? "I don't think so. I don't actually produce that many pieces, and it's no problem selling them anyway. It's always a balance, which my agent looks after." Perry said he did not believe his win signalled a shift of emphasis in the Turner Prize away from the avant-garde to a more traditional craft. "One cycle is in and it tends to blow hot and cold - a left-brain, right-brain cycle," he said. "It is going back to more instinctual, emotional work. "It's a consensus in the art world about quality, and it will roll around again. Things will come along that will be completely different." -C. Heard.