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- ↑ "BALTIC PRESENTS TURNER PRIZE 2011 - Exhibitions - BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art". Archived from the original on 27 November 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2011.
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- ↑ "Streaker at posh North art bash revealls all". Sunday Sun. 11 December 2011. Archived from the original on 12 January 2012.
- ↑ Turner Prize visitors to Gateshead's Baltic smash all previous records - the Guardian
- ↑ Turner Prize visitor figures at Baltic put London to shame - the Journal