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The work of the six artists shortlisted for this year's Beck's Futures contemporary arts prize has gone on display at London's ICA gallery. Daria Martin uses film to explore contrasts in her work, such as Closeup Gallery above.

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US film-maker Daria Martin says of her work: "My films are like magic acts that show how the trick is done."

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Daria Martin aims to seduce her viewers into a dreamy virtual reality, with films including Birds which looks back at fashion history.

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Performance artist and painter Lali Chetwynd looks at the grotesque in her work. An Evening With Jabba the Hutt features dancers cavorting with the Return of the Jedi character.

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London-born Lali Chetwynd often uses familiar references in her work, with classic images of rock singer Meat Loaf included in her paper and tape composition Xerox Masks.

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Lali Chetwynd's passion for Bat Out Of Hell singer Meat Loaf extends to her Bat Opera paintings, part of an idiosyncratic collection which evokes a sense of carnival and burlesque.

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Donald Urquhart subverts historical and pop-cultural motifs with cartoon-like black ink drawings. He has embraced the highs and lows of glamour, hedonism and excess with subjects including Judy Garland, George Best and Elizabeth Taylor.

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Luke Fowler lives and works in Glasgow, where he creates lyrical, ambiguous films that play with the form of documentary. One such film is What You See is Where You're At which studies maverick psychoanalyst RD Laing.

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Luke Fowler uses period film footage as a starting point to explore controversial social experimentation. The Way Out examines underground music figure Xentos Jones.

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Christina Mackie was born in Oxford before moving to Canada to create sculptural installations such as Xing, which aims to understand the way we inhabit space.

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Christina Mackie has held a number of solo shows, including The Interzone which was hosted by the Henry Moore Foundation in 2002.

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Ryan Gander aims to make the familiar unfamiliar and vice versa, sometimes through a restricted perspective - as in The Death of Abbe Faria. All six finalists share �40,000 in prize money with the overall winner receiving an extra �20,000 in April.