Phyl Payne

Reviews

NEVER TOO OLD, Scott Dendy, Rocks Magazine

Already hailed as a success by virtue of the number of entries - some 1,800 - the judges faced a difficult task in trimming them down to an initial shortlist of just 100 and then to the crucial top 50. By way of proof that this is indeed a serious and worthy national prize, the judging panel is made up of art world luminaries: Caroline Collier, head of national initiatives at the Tate; Raimi Gbadamosi, an artist who has exhibited nationally and internationally and honorary research fellow at the Slade School of Art; Norbert Lynton, a distinguished British art historian, writer and teacher; Roger Malbert, senior curator at the Hayward Gallery; Cyril Mount, an artist with many works in the permanent collection of the Imperial War Museum, London, who first tabled the idea of celebrating the vitality in the work of older British visual artists.