Runa Islam closes on favourite as Turner artists go on display

The four short-listed artists up for this year's Turner Prize put their wares on display at Tate Britain on Monday. The smart money had been on Merseyside artist Mark Leckey, but this has been unsettled by 38-year-old Runa Islam (pictured), a Bangladeshi-born, British based film-maker who is represented by Jay Jopling's White Cube gallery.

Islam's work for the Tate is a film, called Be The First To See What You See As You See It, which shows a well-dressed women tipping piece after piece of crockery onto the floor. Leckey, 44, who is far from out of the running and is the critics' choice for the £40,000 prize, is also exhibiting a film. It shows Homer Simpson attending an art lecture.

The other two up for the award are Goshka Macuga, 42, a Polish-born, London-based artist, and Belfast-born Cathy Wilkes. Macuga's work focuses on relationships between famous men and their less well-known female associates, such as the architect Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich, the German designer. I Give You All My Money by Wilkes, 42, is an installation that features a pram, a cooker and two naked female mannequins, one with its head trapped in a cage, the other sitting on a lavatory.