Jesse Darling is an artist who identifies as transmasculine, and explores themes of identity across different media. Ghislaine Jeung is a Swedish conceptualist who examines the socio-economic and spatial conditions of the art industry. Rory Pilgrim is a multidisciplinary artist and performer who is influenced by the origins of activist, feminist and socially engaged art. Barbara Walker is a figurative artist whose work looks at social, cultural and political realities in today’s multicultural Britain. One of them will win the 2023 Turner Prize in December, and with it a cheque for £25,000. The seaside town will be chocka with curious punters, wending their way to Towner to make their own minds up, passing spin-off al-fresco sculptures on the way. It’s Eastbourne, Jim, but not as we know it.