The Manchester-based painter Louise Giovanelli has been named the 2026 recipient of the Robson Orr TenTen Award, the annual commission run by the United Kingdom's Government Art Collection. Each year the award selects one British artist to produce a unique limited-edition print; fifteen editions of Giovanelli's work will be hung in government buildings and embassies around the world, while a further eleven will be sold to support new acquisitions for the Collection. Giovanelli's commission is titled Media Luna, the Spanish phrase for a crescent or half moon. The ninth edition of the award is announced by arts minister Baroness Ruth Mackenzie and backed by philanthropists Sybil Robson Orr and Matthew Orr. Earlier recipients include Lubaina Himid, Denzil Forrester, and Rachel Whiteread — a roster that places the Manchester painter in formidable company. Known for paintings that use wigs as their recurring subject, Giovanelli builds her images through successive operations of distortion, rotation, rephotography, and doubling. The surfaces carry what the artist describes as small glints and specks, producing a distinctly celluloid atmosphere in the finished work. The technique turns each canvas into something between a photograph and a film still, a fitting idiom for an editioned print commission. For the Government Art Collection, the award continues a deliberate strategy of acquiring the best of current British practice rather than waiting for the market to canonize it. For Giovanelli, the commission offers an unusual kind of visibility: her work will hang in the offices where British diplomacy happens, seen daily by people who may never set foot in a gallery.