Video: Turner Prize 2012: why shortlisted artists made the cut This year's favourite, Paul Noble, is best known for his creation 'Nobson Newtown' which features drawings off fantastical buildings and weird landscapes of the imaginary city. He is up against Luke Fowler who interweaves interview footage with his own material, creating a collage of archival video evoking the controversial career and ideas of the psychiatrist RD Laing. Meanwhile Elizabeth Price's work, The Woolworth's Choir of 1979, splices together photographs of gothic church architecture, internet clips of pop performances and news reel footage of a 1979 fire in a Manchester branch of Woolworth's in which 10 people died. The fourth artist in contention is Spartacus Chetwynd, who was nominated for her solo exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ, London. Her performance art, called Odd Man Out, creates carnivalesque displays and sculptural installations involving handmade costumes and sets. The Turner Prize is awarded to artists aged under 50, living, working or born in Britain, for an outstanding exhibition in the previous 12 months.