The English artist Adam Dant offers a winning combination of masterly comic draftsmanship and ambitious, eccentric imagination.
One white male who really should have received a nomination is Alex Horne, who was a newcomer nominee last year and whose new show, Every Body Talks, is more ambitious in imagination and complexity.
Inside this sometimes misfiring show, an ambitious celebration of the imagination is – like the young Paul's creativity – striving to burst out.
Adams went on to script-edit one of my favourite seasons of Doctor Who, one that sharply divides the show's fans – it is praised for its ambitious ideas and upstart imagination, or dismissed for its childish silliness.
Add to that its stunning orange paint job and a beautifully clean, orange-accented black interior with gadgets that come to life as soon as the driver opens the door to get in, and you've got one of the most intricately ambitious concept cars the imagination could conjure.
In an age when the rewards of fame, money and readership often go to the author with the prettiest face, most traumatic childhood or best connections, the incentives for devoting years of effort to an ambitious work of sustained imagination -- rather than, say, a single summer to an autopathography and laser-eye surgery -- are few indeed.
Similarly, no poet has ever made so ambitious a journey of the imagination as the Divine Comedy represents.
But you just have to use your imagination, something this ambitious, free evening encourages with theatrical flair.
a) Ambitious parents b) An overactive imagination c) A wandering womb d) A disposition of the planets E2 How many perfectly pitched bells were discovered in the 420BC tomb of the Chinese Marquis Yi? a) Five b) 26 c) 65 d) 81 E3 Which hell-fire Dominican preacher brought the party to an end in Renaissance Florence?
