Tracey Emin and Arctic Monkeys win South Bank awards
Tracey Emin was honoured for her outstanding achievement to the arts Artist Tracey Emin has been honoured with the South Bank Sky Arts Awards outstanding achievement prize.
The former Young British Artist was handed her award by Frank Skinner at a London ceremony hosted by Lord Bragg.
Arctic Monkeys beat David Bowie to win the pop music prize while acclaimed ITV crime drama Broadchurch triumphed over BBC series Top of the Lake and The Fall to win TV drama.
British film The Selfish Giant won the film award.
Clio Barnard's gritty tale of teenage scrap scavengers beat Hanif Kureishi's Le Week-End, starring Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan, and Steve Coogan's Oscar-nominated Philomena, starring Dame Judi Dench.
Coogan was also nominated in the comedy category for last year's feature film Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, alongside Sky Arts' series Psychobitches, starring Mark Gatiss, Rebecca Front and Julia Davis.
However both lost out to surprise winner Bridget Christie, who won the prize for her show A Bic for Her.
Life After Life author Kate Atkinson was honoured in the book category, beating The Kills by Richard House and Sathnam Sanghera's Marriage Material.
Winners Katie Paterson, Nick Helm and Kate Atkinson all collected trophies, designed by Sir Peter Blake 
The Broadchurch cast and crew turned out in force to collect their TV drama award 
Frank Skinner, Darcey Bussell and actor Daniel Mays were among the attendees The National Theatre of Scotland's production of Let The Right One In beat Othello and Chimerica to win the theatre award, presented by Simon Russell Beale.
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Dame Evelyn Glennie and Imelda May performed at the awards which celebrate the best of British culture and are now in their seventeenth year, after being taken on by Sky Arts when the South Bank Show was cancelled by ITV.
A host of stars from across the arts were there to honour the winners and present awards, including Lenny Henry, artist Gavin Turk, filmmaker Ken Loach and dancer and Strictly Come Dancing judge Darcey Bussell.
Episodes star Stephen Mangan presented the breakthrough award to comedian Nick Helm, who stars in BBC Three series Uncle.
"The shortlist demonstrated an extraordinary breadth and range of artistic disciplines," said presenter and host Melvyn Bragg.
"The richly-deserving winners [are] all examples of the most exciting and unique talents at work in the UK today. I am delighted to be able to honour and celebrate them as they deserve."
Bridget Christie was the surprise winner of the comedy award, presented by Lenny Henry This year's other winners - who were handed an award designed by pop artist and Beatles collaborator Sir Peter Blake - included Katie Paterson, who won the visual art prize for her work Kettle's Yard in Cambridge and Tipping Point at Wolverhampton Art Gallery.
The opera award went to Written on Skin by the Royal Opera House, while the dance category was won by Dracula from the Mark Bruce Company.
The Southbank Centre's The Rest is Noise won the classical music category.
This year's judges included The Observer's Arts Editor Sarah Donaldson, Heat Magazine's Boyd Hilton, The Times Arts Editor Alex O'Connell and the Daily Mail columnist's Baz Bamigboye.
The South Bank Sky Arts Awards will be broadcast on 30 January on Sky Arts 1 at 21:30 GMT. The new series of The South Bank Show will begin on the channel in the spring.
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