At a reception after the award was given, Dr John Templeton, the founder of the Prize, said of Heller's work that «his most creative writings can be concisely characterised as a
meditation upon the miracle of the «mathematical essence of
nature».»
This combination of the personal and universal parallels a
meditation at the heart of her work, in which Wilkes's art enacts an exercise in empathy, exposing deeply felt subjective experiences while also insisting
upon the fundamentally private
nature of artmaking.