A SOUTHEND artist has missed out to become the latest Turner Prize winner.

Duncan Campbell was announced as this year’s winner by Tate Britain, disappointing Southend nominee Tris Vonna-Michell pictured.

Vonna-Michell’s film Finding Chopin: Dans l’Essex (2014), features salt marshes and the Essex coastline and is inspired by a French sound poet who spent part of his life in Essex, close to where the 31-year-old artist grew up.

His other work, Postscript II (Berlin) 2014, is a slide installation based on a story about the artist’s mother’s childhood in post-war Germany.

As well as Campbell Vonna-Michell was up against two other artists, Ciara Phillips, James Richards, for the coveted £25,000 prize, which is in its 30th year.

The former Deanes School pupil, who grew up above a shop on The Broadway, Leigh, has credited the Thames Estuary as shaping his work.