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A model of a Marks & Spencer store and a reproduction of the weatherbeaten placards that make up Brian Haw’s anti-war protest in Parliament Square were among nominations by the Tate yesterday for the £25,000 Turner Prize.

Their respective creators, Nathan Coley and Mark Wallinger, were shortlisted for Britain’s foremost contemporary art award with Zarina Bhimji and Mike Nelson.

Coley’s reconstruction of the Marks & Spencer building that was destroyed in the IRA bombing of Manchester in 1996 and his cardboard models of religious buildings painted in gaudy stripes were said to reflect the 39-year-old artist’s interest in public space. “He explores how architecture comes to be invested with meaning, which can sometime be erased or superseded by other, contradictory ones,” said Miranda Sawyer, one of the judges.

William Hill immediately installed Wallinger as its 11-10 hot favourite – the shortest odds offered to date on the announcement of the shortlist.

Wallinger represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2001 with a video of himself at a London Tube station, posing as a blind man and muttering verses backwards from the Gospel of St John.

Yesterday the 48-year-old Londoner was selected for works such as State Britain, in which he reproduced more than 600 of the antiwar placards and newspaper cuttings attacking the Prime Minister and the Chancellor in a 40-metre replica of Mr Haw’s protest shelter that runs along the Duveen Galleries at Tate Britain.

Bhimji, 43, from London, was deemed the 5-1 outsider by the bookies after she was shortlisted for her photographs of Uganda, from where she was exiled during the regime of Idi Amin. Praising her, the Turner Prize judges said: “Concrete places become abstract sentiments as the physical rhythms of landscape and architecture become pyschological.”

Nelson, 41, who lives in London and Edinburgh, makes labyrinthine installations that are intended to disorient the viewer. The Turner judges were taken by his Double Coop Displacement, a walk-in structure made of wood and chicken wire. He is joint second favourite with Coley at 3-1.

Tate Liverpool will stage an exhibition by the four nominated artists from October 19 and will be the venue for the prize ceremony on December 3.

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