The Walker Art Gallery has announced Manchester-based artist Ally Fallon as the winner of the John Moores Painting Prize 2025. At just 27, Fallon becomes the youngest artist to secure the award since its founding in 1957, taking the £25,000 prize for his painting If...
Kathryn Maple has won the prestigious John Moores Painting Prize 2020 with her vibrant work, The Common. The Walker Art Gallery announced the recipients today. A large, figurative work, Kathryn describes the painting as depicting a ‘..meeting place, an intersection,...
It's not as if Damien Hirst lacks space in London, especially when it comes to exhibiting his own work. Between his superb Caruso St John, designed Newport Street Gallery and his private subterranean gallery in Regent's Park, Damien has plenty of wall space. Now,...
The winner of the John Moores Painting Prize 2018 was announced on Thursday 12 July in Liverpool. The artist, Jacqui Hallum with her painting King and Queen of Wands (2017), took the top prize. Hallum is the 30th winner of the £25,000 award, held every two years and...
The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool has announced the 60 artists whose paintings will feature in the John Moores Painting Prize 2018 exhibition, marking 60 years of the UK’s longest-established painting prize. The free exhibition will be held at the Walker from 14...
The Walker Art Gallery has announced the names of the jury members who will judge the John Moores Art Prize competition in 2018, ahead of the prestigious Painting Prize's call for entries opening on 14 September 2017. Now in its 60th year, The jury comprises esteemed...
Donal Moloney’s Cave Floor is this year’s winner of the visitor's prize where museum goers to the John Moores Painting Prize have the chance to select their favourite. The intricate kaleidoscopic painting has won the £2,016 prize, sponsored by Rathbones. In total...
The prestigious £25,000 John Moores art prize 2016 has been awarded to the artist Michael Simpson for his painting ’Squint (19) ‘ 2015. It was announced at an awards ceremony at the Walker Art Gallery on 7...
First held in 1957, the John Moores Painting Prize is the UK's best-known painting competition and is named after Sir John Moores (1896 - 1993), the founder of the prize. Sir John Moores was the owner of the Littlewoods company and a keen amateur painter,...