
Turner Prize 2025 Visual Story
This Visual Story is for visitors to the Turner Prize 2025 at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery. It contains information about how to get here, with images to help prepare you for your visit.
Introduction
Welcome to the Turner Prize 2025 at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery.
The building is big and old, so when it’s busy, it can be quite loud and echoey.

How to get here
The following buses stop at the side of Lister Park – 626, 662, 680 and the A3.
There are bus stops on Keighley Road, North Park Road and Oak Lane. Most of the buses that go to Bingley or Keighley go past the park.


The entrance off North Park Road is closest to the accessible entrance.

If you come in the car, there is a car park with some blue badge spaces next to the bowling green, just off North Park Road. There are some extra spaces along the road just inside the park.


If you need to get closer, you can continue to the barrier. The image above shows it open, but it is often closed. The number to call is on the no entry signs.
It is 01274 431212.

Follow the path downhill where there are some parking spaces close to the accessible entrance.
If you come to Lister Park from the front, you get to the accessible entrance by going to the right of the building.

The box office is in a shipping container-style structure to the left of the building. You can leave bags and coats here if you want to.

To get to the accessible entrance, follow the route to the right of the building, through these blue gates.

Walk past the café on the left.

And this sheltered piazza on the right.
This piazza has additional toilet facilities including an accessible toilet.
Keep walking past the café and turn left at the end of the building.

When you reach the accessible entrance, a white gazebo next to the entrance offers some shelter.
The entrance is a large brown wooden door. Volunteers will be waiting to welcome you and take you inside.
They will scan your tickets.

A big wooden door leads you into the building, and the lift is immediately inside. This is the basement.


There’s an accessible toilet immediately on the right as you step out of the lift on the ground floor.
A link to a map showing the nearest Changing Places toilet is here: Changing Places Toilets.

The Info Desk is where you can get information about all the accessible resources available. There will be a Braille guide and devices to help you access the audio description and translations.
There will also be fidget toys and ear defenders.
Some schools groups may use the Learning Room. This may also be used by family and community groups.

There is also a flexible space that can be a Quiet Room or a Prayer Room.
The Exhibition Hub
This is the Exhibition Hub.
Here you will find films and information about each of the four artists nominated for the Turner Prize 2025.


On to the artists!

Gallery 1
Rene Matić
Gallery 1 is the first gallery you’ll come to when you come out of the lift on the ground floor.
This is Rene Matić’s exhibition.
It is a room with a wooden floor, and a large banner with the words ‘no place’ written in black on one side, and ‘for violence’ on the other. Photos are behind it.
Also in this room are three shelves set into the wall, each one full of black dolls.
This gallery has a soundscape of overlapping voices and singing.

We are encouraged to use a one-way system to explore the galleries. This means going upstairs to gallery 2.
You can go back in the lift if you’d prefer. Press the button for the 1st floor.

Gallery 2
Mohammed Sami
Gallery 2 is at the top of the stairs. This is Mohammed Sami’s exhibition.
Large paintings of landscapes fill the walls. They have ‘haunting, oblique references to violence.’
This gallery has no sound.
To get to Gallery 3, you’ll pass some of the Cartwright Hall Art Gallery collection, which includes a statue and some paintings. There are seats you can use on the way.


Gallery 3
Nnena Kalu
Gallery 3 is where you can find Nnena Kalu’s exhibition.
Bundles of found material, that are almost animal-like, hang in the middle of the space, made of shiny, colourful tape. Two abstract drawings – like swirling vortex – in blue and red.
This gallery has no sound.
To get to Gallery 4, you’ll either go down the stone stairs or use the lift back to the ground floor.


Gallery 4
Zadie Xa
Gallery 4 is where you’ll find Zadie Xa’s exhibition.
You’ll need to take your shoes off to go into this gallery as the floor is a reflective, mirrored gold. It’s recommended that visitors wear trousers.
There is a bench to the right to help with taking off shoes, and one of the left where you can put them back on again when you come out.

If you’d rather keep your shoes on, you can wear shoe covers instead.
In the exhibition you will find a space filled with nature-inspired, colourful pieces. Large seashells hang at the four corners. They have sound coming out of them. There’s a huge mobile of smaller shells that hangs in middle above a gold, mirrored floor.
This work has a soundscape, using multiple sounds and voices.