This video offers an excerpt from Susan Philipsz's "Lowlands" sound art piece which helped her earn the very prestigious Turner Prize for 2010.

Breaking News -- December 6, 2010

Scottish artist Susan Philipsz has struck a blow for the ever-expanding genre of sound art by scooping the 2010 Turner Prize.

In a ceremony this evening at Tate Britain she beat off competition from the painter Dexter Dalwood, artist-led collective The Otolith Group and the crumpled and mangled canvasses of Angela de la Cruz.

The fourth woman and the first sound artist to win the prize Philipsz professed herself to be “very honoured to have won the award”.