Selectors Xavier Bray, Assistant Curator at the National Gallery, David Rayson, Professor of Painting at the Royal College of Art and Michael Sandle RA, Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors chose Patricia Cain’s work Building the Riverside Museum from a shortlist of seven to win the £25,000 Threadneedle Prize, with each of the runners-up receiving £1,000.

The £10,000 Visitors’ Choice was awarded to Boyd & Evans, as their landscape Clee Hill 2009 received the highest number of votes from the public visiting the exhibition. The public vote is of central importance to the ethos of The Threadneedle Prize, as Lewis McNaught, Director of the Mall Galleries, says, ‘People come to art very engaged, they have opinions and they have the right to express those opinions’.