He launched his campaign during a speech given at a Fabian Society conference at the School of Oriental and African Studies and was nominated by 62 fellow Labour MPs.
Click here or on "View Images" for a gallery of work by shortlisted artists Shrigley, who was born in Macclesfield and has been based in Glasgow since studying at the Glasgow School of Art, was nominated for the retrospective of his work at the Hayward Gallery in London.
Methyleugenol, a natural as well as synthesized substance, was nominated for study because it is structurally similar to safrole, a known animal carcinogen.
Given the broad potential for exposure resulting from both dietary and consumer product use and its structural similarity to other carcinogenic allyl alkoxybenzenes, methyl eugenol was nominated for study by the National Toxicology Program (NTP) at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
Bonnie Camplin was nominated for a study centre she created where people could spend hours – days, even – listening to bizarre conspiracy theories spanning topics from state-sponsored mind control to the power of a secret band of yoga-loving alien reptiles.
A Columbia University graduate who majored in African-American studies and creative writing, Ms. Hall was nominated for the prize by the Signature Theater Company in New York.
The son of an Orthodox priest, Ivan Stragorodsky became a monk after his theological studies, taking the name Sergius, and was nominated successively to several bishoprics, including Finland in 1905 and Nizhny Novgorod, where he became metropolitan, or archbishop, in 1917.
Neither candidate was nominated.
That was before Elena Kagan was nominated.
