An artist whose work has featured erotic images with the explicit details sandpapered away and another who narrates slideshows are up for this year’s Turner Prize.
And graduates of the Glasgow School of Art dominate the nominee list for this year’s prize.
Three out of the four candidates for the UK’s best-known art award studied at the school.
The annual award, the UK’s best-known art prize, also includes a screen printer who has used her work to highlight the plight of poorly-paid cleaners and a film-maker whose subjects have included the car manufacturer John DeLorean.
The main £25,000 winner from the four-strong shortlist will be announced on December 1 at a ceremony at Tate Britain in London.
James Richards, the youngest artist on the list at the age of just 30, is nominated for his work including the film Rosebud, where he took shots of censored books in a Tokyo library in which raunchy photos had been doctored to remove close-up details. He is the only one of the four not to study at Glasgow.
Tris Vonna-Michell, 31, is noted for his semi-improvised presentations, often using slide projections.
Screen-printer Ciara Phillips, 37, often transforms her exhibition spaces into workshops and sometimes works with community groups.
Film-maker Duncan Campbell has been nominated for his presentation It For Others featuring archive material and new footage.
Penelope Curtis, the director of Tate Britain and chairwoman of the jury, said: “The four shortlisted artists share a strong international presence and an ability to adapt, re-stage and reinterpret their own and others’ works.”
The Turner celebrates its 30th anniversary this year and is awarded to a British or British-based artist under 50 for outstanding work in the previous 12 months.
It aims to promote public discussion in contemporary art, and was won last year by French artist Laure Prouvost for her video installation set in a mocked-up tea party.
The Turner Prize 2014 exhibition will be staged from September 30 to January 4.
Curtis conceded the list was made up of names who did not have a particularly high mainstream profile but said it was “a chance to bring out some of the smaller names that the art world has been talking about to a wider public”.
Many of the works contain direct references to the work of other artists and film-makers, although she said this was just an extension of a tradition in art.
“It used to be hinted in paintings and now it is a direct quotation,” she said.