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| Artwork based on anti-war campaigner Brian Haw has made the shortlist for the 2007 Turner Prize. | Artwork based on anti-war campaigner Brian Haw has made the shortlist for the 2007 Turner Prize. |
| Mark Wallinger recreated Haw's Parliament Square protest camp for his State Britain exhibition. | Mark Wallinger recreated Haw's Parliament Square protest camp for his State Britain exhibition. |
| Other shortlisted artists this year include photographer and film-maker Zarina Bhimji and sculptor and photographer Nathan Coley. | Other shortlisted artists this year include photographer and film-maker Zarina Bhimji and sculptor and photographer Nathan Coley. |
| Mike Nelson, who was nominated in 2001, has also been selected for his varied installation work. | |
| Wallinger was shortlisted in for the Turner Prize in 1995 and one of his sculptures, Ecce Homo, stood on the vacant plinth in Trafalgar square in 1999. | |
| Provoking debate | |
| Bhimji has been shortlisted for her photographs of Uganda, from where she was exiled under Idi Amin. | |
| Nelson will be judged on his Double coop displacement installation, which features a structure made of wood and chicken wire. | |
| Coley specialises in cardboard models of religious buildings, painted in gaudy stripes similar to a circus big top. | |
| He has been selected for works displayed on the Isle of Bute, in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and in Belgrade, Serbia. | |
| The prize will be presented on 3 December at the Tate Gallery in Liverpool, ahead of the city becoming the European Capital of Culture in 2008. | The prize will be presented on 3 December at the Tate Gallery in Liverpool, ahead of the city becoming the European Capital of Culture in 2008. |
| Works by the four nominated artists will be exhibited in October at Tate Liverpool's Albert Dock Gallery. | Works by the four nominated artists will be exhibited in October at Tate Liverpool's Albert Dock Gallery. |
| The £25,000 was won last year by the German painter Tomma Abts. | The £25,000 was won last year by the German painter Tomma Abts. |
| The prize is noted for causing debate over its winner's artistic merit. The 2005 winner was Simon Starling, who dismantled a shed, made it into a boat, then turned it back into a shed again. | The prize is noted for causing debate over its winner's artistic merit. The 2005 winner was Simon Starling, who dismantled a shed, made it into a boat, then turned it back into a shed again. |