Visually Bangladesh

The Tate has announced the shortlist for the Turner Prize 2008. Among them is British-Bangladeshi artist Runa Islam. She is nominated for two solo exhibitions in Norway and a showing of her work at the Venice Biennale 2007 in Italy.

The judges said "Islam's works manage to be at once analytical and emotionally-charged, formal and socially relevant".

Runa was born in 1970 in Dhaka. She now lives and works in London, UK.