Emma Dalesman

This will probably be one of the strangest Easter periods that the world has ever experienced: in the UK, the peak of coronavirus (Covid-19) cases is expected to coincide with the Christian festival that is known as much for its chocolate eggs as its profound religious significance, celebrated in a glory of Western art historical images commemorating the Passion of Christ.

This year’s Turner Prize exhibition, which opens this week at the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull (26 September-7 January 2018), looks outside of the art world, engaging with social issues such as inequality, poverty, the representation of ethnic minorities, surveillance and control. George Vasey, the exhibition co-curator, tells The Art Newspaper that there has “been a fixation on the traditional media [of painting] but the work is actually quite radical”.