“Steve McQueen has been chosen as the artist who will represent Britain at the 2009 Venice Biennale. He is the first artist working primarily in film selected to represent Britain for the event. McQueen last month won the Caméra d’Or at Cannes for his debut feature, Hunger, about the death of Bobby Sands – the first prisoner to die in the Maze prison as a result of hunger strikes in 1981.”