An artist who bent a full-sized rollercoaster into the skeletal form of a woolly mammoth is among four nominees who have been shortlisted for this year’s Turner Prize.

Oxford-born Jesse Darling’s exhibitions No Medals, No Ribbons at Modern Art Oxford and Enclosures at Camden Art Centre were praised for using a series of consumer goods, construction materials, fictional characters and mythical symbols to evoke “the vulnerability of the human body”.

The 41-year-old, who now lives in Berlin, also used plastic bags and mobility aids bent into different shapes and scattered on the floor to highlight the “precariousness of power structures” and express the “messy reality of life”.

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The artist's work was praised for “exposing the world’s underlying fragility and refusing to make oneself appear legible and functioning to others”.

Alex Farquharson, director of Tate Britain and chairman of the Turner Prize jury, said: “(Jessie) is really pushing the boundaries of that kind of sculptural practice that involves materials and materials becoming images, the use of space which is much more conceptual…but nevertheless produces this almost unexpected sense of subordinate humanity, social systems, and particularly as embodied in gallery structures.”

The contemporary art prize named after painter JMW Turner is awarded to a British artist for an “outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work”.

The Oxford artist is up against Barbara Walker, Rory Pilgrim and Ghislaine Leung for the prestigious art award.

An exhibition of the shortlisted artists’ work will be held from September 28 at Towner Eastbourne until April 14, 2024 as the “centrepiece of the gallery’s centenary programme”.

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The winner of the prize will be awarded £25,000, while shortlisted artists will receive £10,000 at an award ceremony at Eastbourne’s Winter Gardens on December 5.

Speaking about the shortlisted Turner Prize nominees, Mr Farquharson added: “I think they’re all wonderful.

“I think that they have such integrity to each of their practises. No Turner Prize shortlist can completely represent what’s going on in contemporary art, but between them it’s a very interesting and wide ranging snapshot.”