Presentation Ceremony in the Axis Restaurant, One Aldwych Hotel, Covent Garden, June 20, 7 pm

The London Awards for Art and Performance are the country's most expansive awards and recognises the best in British art and entertainment across 11 categories. Nominations are based on recent and highly rated reviews of the artist or performer's work, and a recognition of their talent and skill in their art form.

As current and excellent practitioners of their art, the nominees themselves are the best people to judge each category. Nominees are asked to pick their top artists to arrive at the shortlist and award winner who will receive the trophy. The winner will be announced at the Presentation Ceremony.

Shortlist (in development as votes are coming in, alphabetical order):

Results of public voting (please note, online voting can be unreliable so this is for interest only and will not be used in the judging). Please take a moment to vote below, only one vote per award please.

Long list in competition (click on title for more) - nominations: 18

London Art Award Nomination Robert Montgomery: '.. goes about at night illegally plastering over advertisements with posters covered in his poetry. His very pleasing verse is presented in white typography on a black background, screaming out ideas about beauty, consumerism and hypocrisy, among other things. The elegant words, and their sparse presentation, have been appearing on hoardings for the last ten years.'

Venetia Twigg · Views 246 · Feb 23 ·

London Art Award Nomination Zarina Bhimji: '[Whitechapel Gallery exhibition] Elegiac in mood and very beautiful, the photographs are immaculately composed, with an acute sensitivity to the play of light across rooms and surfaces.'

Greg Tallent · Views 309 · Feb 22 ·

London Art Award Nomination Gordon Baldwin: '.. a British studio potter whose vessels, handmade in stoneware or earthenware, speak with sophistication and subtlety the language of modernism, but move you with an intimacy that comes from their domestic scale and humble material.'

Greg Tallent · Views 332 · Feb 20 ·

London Art Award Nomination Eddie Peake: '.. deftly spins a yarn made of different historical strands of camp and homoerotics. The biggest mistake would be to take anything too seriously here, but then itā€™s as if Peake is toying with the risk of making an authentically inscrutable position out of the slippery surfaces of artifice and masquerade that usually signify sexual identity.'

Venetia Twigg · Views 556 · Feb 18 ·

London Art Award Nomination Samantha Donnelly: 'She serves up a freakish world of fragmented intimacies. If the surrealist Hans Bellmer had been let loose in Poundland he might have created something similar. Broken armatures are decked out with amoebic limbs; organic substances abutted against geometric plastic. Bits dangle, squirm and writhe about; it's guttural kitsch, erotic farce. As playful as it is perverse, Donnelly's art is daft yet deeply serious.'

Venetia Twigg · Views 255 · Feb 01 ·

London Art Award Nomination Leo Fitzmaurice: '.. a master of re-presentation; of deconstructing context and heading off on another narrative, or other such art-related nomenclature. Iā€™m presuming that one day, while gazing at the floor of a cafĆ© in Sao Paulo, or strolling, head-down, along a street in Shanghai, the artist spotted a besmirched cigarette packet damply splayed, and thought, ā€˜That looks exactly like the new Tranmere away stripā€™. And there, or thereabouts, began a new obsession.'

Venetia Twigg · Views 284 · Jan 27 ·

London Art Award Nomination Paul Winstanley: '.. paints nondescript places and anonymous figures...Like all of his works, these emanate stillness and quietude, actually seeming to dampen sound and emphasizing the experience of looking. With consideredā€”and considerableā€”nuance and deftness, Winstanley makes a case for the continuing relevance of painting and its capacity for translating seeing into feeling.'

Venetia Twigg · Views 288 · Jan 23 ·

London Art Award Nomination Bedwyr Williams: ".. some people classify him as a stand-up comedian as much as an artist. There's the 26ft-tall skyscraper beehive, a bicycle covered in wool with sheep horns for handlebars and a piece inspired by two cross-dressing cage fighters in Swansea's city centre ā€“ all described in a laconic and often hilarious deadpan. ā€˜He's marvellously talented and ā€“ unusually for contemporary art ā€“ very funny,ā€™ says Laura Cumming, the Observer's art critic."

Venetia Twigg · Views 323 · Jan 02 ·

London Art Award Nomination Nathaniel Mellors: '.. maker of multi-part videos and animatronic heads that gurn, spew and mumble, mangling language to the fascination of curators and commentators who find in Mellors a piquant interplay of low humour and high philosophy.'

Venetia Twigg · Views 302 · Dec 21 ·

London Art Award nomination Tony Cragg: 'Iā€™m not a religious personā€”Iā€™m an absolute materialistā€”and for me material is exciting and ultimately sublime. When Iā€™m involved in making sculpture, Iā€™m looking for a system of belief or ethics in the material. I want that material to have a dynamic, to push and move and grow.'

Venetia Twigg · Views 530 · Dec 16 ·

London Art Award nomination John Stezaker: '.. his insidiously disturbing images sidestep rational thought, and appeal directly to the irrational substrata of the imagination.'

Venetia Twigg · Views 298 · Dec 08 ·

London Art Award nomination Paul Noble: '.. this is an epic vision of the ridiculousness and mysteries of human life. It resembles one of British art's true magnum opuses.'

Venetia Twigg · Views 315 · Dec 02 ·

London Art Award nomination Ralph Steadman: '.. extinct birds "have more character than todayā€™s politicians."'

David Knight · Views 817 · Nov 25 ·

London Art Award nomination David Shrigley: '.. has authored several books, directed music videos for Blur and Bonnie Prince Billy, released spoken word albums, and boasted solo and group exhibitions across the world since 1991.'

Venetia Twigg · Views 388 · Nov 24 ·

London Art award nomination George Shaw: '.. suburbia can often feel like ā€œthe one place on earth thatā€™s further from anywhere else.ā€'

Chris Brocklebank · Views 451 · Nov 16 ·

London Art Award nomination Anna King: 'I find myself in a no-mans land. Unclaimed territory, that, for a while anyway, I can have as my own.'

Venetia Twigg · Views 604 · Nov 11 ·

London Art Award Nomination Tacita Dean: '[on film] Totally new and oddly out of time, with its cutaway images, hand-painted mountains, rivers of lightning like pulsing nerves.'

Venetia Twigg · Views 498 · Oct 21 ·

London Art Award nomination Patrick Hughes: 'He has become the master of visual paradox and puzzle ā€“ the keyhole-shaped solid that retains the image of what the peeper saw through it, the striped tin of striped paint.'

Views 755 · Aug 08 ·