Some of Britain’s best contemporary artists have never even been shortlisted for the Turner Prize. “There is every possibility that an un-Turner prize, for which the only qualification for candidates would be that they had never been shortlisted, would be more interesting and more fun, and heaven knows it could easily be worth more money, than the Turner prize itself. There have been philistine anti-Turner prizes in the past; what we need is something at least as sophisticated and as discriminating as the Turner prize itself.”