Sex dolls and strap-ons

It will bemuse, amuse and confuse - and, thanks to the Chapman brothers, this year's Turner Prize show might just turn a few stomachs too.

In its 20th anniversary year, the nominees for the world's most famous art prize have come up with something for everyone - except, perhaps the under-16s.

Providing the Turner's traditional dose of shock are Jake and Dinos Chapman, the notorious brothers who revel in the controversial.

Death is a bronze statue of two fully inflated sex dolls on a lilo, the one on top fellating the other's strap-on penis.

And if that wasn't enough, the companion piece to death - Sex - is a sculpture of three skeletons, some with flesh still hanging from their bones, hanging from a stunted tree. Bizarrely, one wears a clown nose and Mr Spock-style ears.

Around these dismembered remains swarm a host of hungry creatures. Feeding off the human flesh, as well as each other, are maggots, beetles, flies, worms, spiders, mice, snails, snakes, a bat and a raven.

Tate's curator, Katherine Stout, said of the sculpture, a new work inspired by Goya: "This is a representation of death which, in its over-the-top absurdity, questions our notion of horror."

Finally from the Chapmans, Insult To Injury is a collection of Goya etchings which they have "improved" by drawing comedy heads over the original images.

Next up is Grayson Perry, 43, the transvestite potter from Chelmsford who displays 14 pots emblazoned with images about everything from child abuse and sexual stereotypes to the art world's elite.

Ms Stout said: "He is using his own experiences to make wider comments, especially about the way children are treated. They are either dressed up and idolised or mistreated and abused. You wouldn't expect these beautiful pots to deal with such a disturbing subject."