Is anyone going to be lucky enough to check out the Turner prize shortlist exhibition at the Tate? I sort of hate the prize, but this year’s shortlist is pretty interesting. I especially like Paul Noble, whose work is on a subject close to my own heart — for years he’s done etchings of an imaginary city named Nobson Newtown in incredible detail. The overall effect isn’t sappy like you might expect, more of a series of slowly unfolding mysteries of the places you knew somewhere, sometime, maybe when you were in another form. Etching by Paul Noble

Is anyone going to be lucky enough to check out the Turner prize shortlist exhibition at the Tate? I sort of hate the prize, but this year’s shortlist is pretty interesting. I especially like Paul Noble, whose work is on a subject close to my own heart — for years he’s done etchings of an imaginary city named Nobson Newtown in incredible detail. The overall effect isn’t sappy like you might expect, more of a series of slowly unfolding mysteries of the places you knew somewhere, sometime, maybe when you were in another form.

Etching by Paul Noble