Susan Philipsz wins the Turner Prize but we remember Glengall Bus Station Belfast!

Chuffed to bits for Susan Philipsz winning the Turner Prize 2010. Her win has created the usual "is this art" annual debate around the prize. She's the first sound installation artist to win, using her singing voice to create sound installations in unusual places.

But while the national press are full of her Turner win, she actually had her first ever sound installation in Glengall Street bus station in Belfast. I just spoke to her friend and fellow artist/musician Bill Drummond who remembers the Glengall Street bus station installation! Her singing would come over the tannoy system, punctuating the bus arrivals and departures notices. He also remembers putting her up in his house in London when she came over to do a similar installation in a Tesco in Bethnal Green. And back here, he collaborated with her on a one off record, in which she recorded herself singing "As Tears go by" in an alcove of the Curfew Tower in Cushendall, and he got it pressed in a one off 7" record where the record now lives and can be played.

I'm chuffed too for Susan because I write this blog not just as a Northern Ireland based arts journalist interested in Philipsz time here, (University of Ulster Masters of Fine Art, director of Catalyst Arts Belfast ) but as a proud big sister. My brother, James Kerr, gave Susan her first ever solo show in the Context Gallery in Derry in 2000.

So it only seems right that Derry should be the first place outside of London to host the Turner prize. In 2013 the plans are that the site of the former Ebrington Barracks will host the work of the competitors and prize giving ceremony.

But a word of warning, if you are passing the Curfew Tower in Cushendall and thought you would drop in and listen to Susan's rendition of "As Tears go by", apparently Bill's son broke the Dansette record player last summer. And he hasn't got round to getting it fixed yet!