'Just when it seemed that the Turner Prize had exhausted its capacity to shock, along came the biggest bombshell of all yesterday: a woman who paints flowers is favourite to win this year. Gillian Carnegie, a 34-year-old Londoner, has already achieved some notoriety for her paintings of her own bottom, which looked almost exactly like a woman's bottom, give or take the odd brush stroke. One of these paintings, entitled Mabel, was exhibited in Tate Britain's 2003 show Days Like These, an exhibition hailed by critics as the beginning of a "New Gentleness" in British art. Apparently, this meant that artists were beginning to wield paintbrushes again rather than video cameras or bottles of pickling solution.'