On receiving the Award Katrina Palmer said:

"I feel exceptionally lucky to receive the Paul Hamlyn Foundation award. This will radically alter the practicalities of my working environment, enabling me to properly equip a studio with the specific kit that I need to develop my audio recordings alongside more ambitious installations. Crucially, I’ll be able to enhance the sonic quality of my work in tandem with my writing and to do this in an integrated way in a dedicated space. I had not thought this would be possible. The difference this award will make to me is enormous."

Other recipients of Visual Art Awards 2014 are Bonnie Camplin, Michael Dean, Rosalind Nashashibi, and James Richards. Martin Green, Shebaka Hutchings, and Pat Thomas received the Composers Awards.

The Visual Arts jury was composed by Jane Hamlyn, chair of the foundation, artist Ed Atkins (who received the award in 2012), Gavin Delahunty, senior curator of the Dallas Museum of Art, Mary Griffiths, curator at the Whitworth Art Gallery, and Anthony Spira, director of Milton Keynes Gallery.

The Paul Hamlyn Foundation is one of the larger independent grant-making foundations in the UK, and the award is a generous one: each winner receives £50,000 over three years, with no obligations or conditions as to how the money is used.

The awards, which currently celebrate their 20th anniversary, are aimed at UK-based practicing visual artists of any age. The goal of the prize is to support artists at pivotal times of their careers, encouraging them to continue their work despite pressures, financial or otherwise.

Previous recipients of the award include another Ruskin lecturer - Elizabeth Price (2012) as well as  Ian White (2013), Sue Tompkins (2011), Ángela de la Cruz (2010), Marc Camille Chaimowicz (2009), Duncan Campbell (2008), Mark Leckey (2007), Jeremy Deller (2001), and Hilary Lloyd (2000)

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