This year’s Turner Prize shortlist “is one of the strongest in the 25-year history of the prize. With two painters, a draughtsman and a sculptor, not only do these artists actually make things (as opposed to think them, lecture about them, photograph them or film them), but their work is often shockingly, breathtakingly beautiful. … The weakness of the shortlist is a lack of balance: it has three good artists and one great one.”