The 2026 Selectors
Nina Murdoch
Nina Murdoch trained at the Slade and at the Royal Academy Schools. She has won numerous awards including the inaugural Threadneedle Prize and the ING Discerning Eye Prize. Having enjoyed sell-out exhibitions at Marlborough Fine Art and The Fine Art Society, Nina’s work is held by important collections such as the UCL Art Museum, David Roberts Foundation and Hiscox.
Emma Stibbon
Emma Stibbon RA is widely recognised for her masterful engagement with the landscape genre, creating powerful large-scale drawings and prints that explore environments shaped by natural forces and human impact. Often working from remote locations among them the polar regions, volcanic terrains, deserts and coastal environments, her drawings records the beauty and precariousness of our planet. Her work is held in major public and private collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Towner Eastbourne, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and the Stadtmuseum, Berlin.
Anjana Khatwa
Anjana Khatwa is an award-winning earth scientist, presenter and writer who has worked for several universities, the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site and the National Trust. She has been given the Geographical Award for public engagement by the Royal Geographical Society, the RH Worth Award by the Geological Society of London and the Halstead Medal from the Geologists’ Association. Anjana lives with her family in Dorset in a house filled with rocks and fossils collected from all over the world. The Whispers of Rock: Stories from the Earth is her first book and explores how rock has shaped our world and our lives.
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Louise Balaam
Dr. David Boyd Haycock is a freelance art historian and curator, and a Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. A specialist in early 20th-century British art and culture, he is the author of a number of books, including A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War and Brilliant Destiny: The Age of Augustus John. His most recent book is Art Quake, 1910: The Manet and the Post-Impressionists Exhibition, published in May 2026.
Adrian Green
Adrian Green is the director of The Salisbury Museum. He studied Archaeology at University College London and has an MA in Museum Studies from Leicester University. At Salisbury he has been responsible for transforming the permanent galleries and launching a temporary exhibition programme centred on 19th and 20th century art linked to the Salisbury area. This has included exhibitions about John Constable, JMW Turner, Augustus John, John Craxton and Rex Whistler.