She chooses an artist on the basis of "originality and talent".
Snoo Wilson, who has died of a heart attack at 64, was an unruly and unpredictable playwright who never achieved the popular approval his great originality and talent warranted.
As a painter, Watanabe was a man of great originality whose talent was sustained by sound technique based on untiring sketching.
It's a shame, as Jess Richards has originality and talent which, if harnessed with rigour, could yield something truly powerful.
Fashion takes up with originality and talent because it knows that these often prove profitable, and also out of its characteristic compulsion to replenish itself by ceaselessly devouring the new.
If our highly experienced, very well read fiction and poetry previewers see no spark of originality or talent, why send the book to a reviewer who will probably reach the same conclusion, only publicly?
When the Jamaican writer Marlon James won the Man Booker prize last year with A Brief History of Seven Killings he became internationally famous, yet his earlier two novels had marked him out as a writer of great originality and talent.
Not a rule-book that ensures that all programmes are risk and creativity free, but a commitment to back real originality and talent in a context of responsibility and common sense.
The show is a valuable chance to contemplate the spread of an artistic style, and the ratio of originality and talent as well as diligence and ambition that makes an artist "canon worthy".
