“All this year’s artists are extremely well-known, and in their 30s or early 40s. Sir Nicholas Serota, Tate director and chairman of the judges, conceded: ‘This is not a Turner Prize devoted to the newest of the new or the youngest of the young’. The artists were chosen from 150 names, nominated by members of the public and the jury, of which 25 were seriously debated. Sir Nicholas described it as ‘a wonderful, strong, diverse shortlist’.”