Now in its 11th year, the prize, sponsored by Rathbones, awards the winning artist £2,020. The longlisted paintings have been selected from more than 2,700 entries by an esteemed panel of jurors including the 2017 Turner Prize winner Lubaina Himid MBE. Welcome back to Fishinkblog and part two of a post featuring my selections from the 2018 John Moores Painting Prize. In its more than 60 year history the Prize has evolved but one fundamental rule has remained the same; paintings are judged anonymously, allowing the works to speak for themselves and giving the process and final exhibition a unique authenticity. The Prize is celebrating 60 years in 2018 […] Overall Paintings - £1,700 Artwork We DIDN'T Like Mineral 9 - £3,000 The House - £3,000 Untitled - £1,800 'Stevie Smith and the Willow', Sarah Pickstone The picture accompanies the 1957 poem by Stevey Smith 'Not Waving But Drowning' The picture is suppose to draw upon the comic John Moores Stage 2 2012 ART CRATE CONSTRUCTION For the past two weeks I have been busy making a display crate for my stage two entry of the John Moores painting prize 2012. The launch of the call for entries this year marks the 50th anniversary of the John Moores prize. The John Moores Painting Prize is organised in partnership with the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition Trust. The shortlist for the John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize, the UK’s largest contemporary painting competition with a first prize of £25,000 and total fund of over £35,000, was announced yesterday.Artists Jake & Dinos Chapman, art critic Sacha Craddock, and artists Graham Crowley and Paul Morrison, both former John Moores Prize winners, are the judges. The artists shortlisted this year were Rae Hicks, Juliette Losq, Mandy Payne,… High spec cameras, screens, speakers and AV software allowed judges to appreciate the scale, texture and detail of the works in real time. Five prizewinning paintings from the John Moores Painting Prize China will also be displayed in the 2021 exhibition. Steve Burden, Joanne Hummel-Newell and Orlanda Broom have all successfully progressed to stage 2 of judging for the prestigious John Moores Painting Prize Exhibition. For 67 artists the long wait is over, now they’ve been told their work has earned a place in the prestigious John Moores Painting Prize 2020 exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery from 12 February to 27 June 2021. The longlist was selected from almost 3,000 artworks, ranging from large scale canvases to exquisitely detailed pieces. The exhibition is held every two years at the Walker Art Gallery in partnership with the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition Trust. Following Liverpool’s move into Tier 3 of the government’s Covid restrictions, this is also the first time in the history of the Prize the judging has been conducted online. The winner of the prestigious first prize in 2018 was Jacqui Hallum with her painting, King and Queen of Wands. About. John Moores Painting Prize, Liverpool, United Kingdom. Interviews, clips and exclusive private view footage from the John Moores Painting Prize at the Walker Art Gallery. First held in 1957, it is the UK's best-known competition for painters and is named after Sir John Moores (1896 - 1993), the founder of the competition. The names of the five prizewinning artists will be shared in January 2021, with the first prize winner and the Emerging Artist Prize to be announced at the opening of the exhibition. 1/2 The John Moores Painting Prize With Alexei Sayle - YouTube The John Moores Painting Prize is organised in partnership with the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition Trust. Find out about the John Moores Painting Prize, one of the UK's most important art prizes at the Walker Art Gallery. It also ensured a rich dialogue between the judges, a vital and cherished part of the process. “We’d like thank all of our artists who found the time and energy just when the world was changing so dramatically during the first few weeks of lockdown, to enter their work and follow the process through all of the changes and uncertainties over the past few months. The longlist for the John Moores Painting Prize 2018 has been announced with 60 paintings chosen for what is the 60th anniversary of the biennial prize and exhibition. It's been a real challenge to narrow down our selection not simply because of the inevitable restrictions of the pandemic, but because we were faced with so many varied, imaginative and skilful works of art.”, Fellow juror, Michelle Williams Gamaker, said: “Judging the John Moores Painting Prize this year at a distance presented a new challenge in the Prize’s history. The works will be exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool from 14 July to 18 November, as part of Liverpool Biennial 2018. Current Prizewinners 2012 2012 Winner Sarah Pickstone Prize Winners Our Opinion Comparisons to the Turner Prize Exhibition Layout V Narbi Price Ian Law Biggs and Collings "It was exhilarating to discover, in the course of viewing so much of Pedro De Siqueira  Note to Karen from finance: can power transcend? Michael Hempstead  Dead Soul's Boogie-Woogie: Dancing Now, LANTAIN  HORTUS CONCLUSUS: Le Rouge et le Noir, Laurence Owen  A Plant Fizzing with Air Bubbles in its Plumbing, Philippa Robbins  Cactus Against a Blue Wall, Annika Strom  I am Curious Pink (no.1 of The One Hundred) 2020, Harry Whitelock  I'll Break My Neck For You. Read more . Organised by the College of Fine Arts at Shanghai University, the China Prize was launched in 2010 to support the development of painting in China. It's completely anonymous, no names are given, they only know a painting's title, size and medium. Following Liverpool’s move into Tier 3 of the government’s Covid restrictions, this is first time in the history of the Prize the judging was all done online. The exhibition is showing as part of Liverpool Biennial 2021, the largest festival of contemporary art in the UK, taking place across the city’s public spaces, galleries and museums from 20 March to 6 June 2021. The exhibition is showing as part of Liverpool Biennial 2021, the largest festival of contemporary art in the UK, taking place across the city’s public spaces, galleries and museums from 20 March to 6 June 2021. Only 67 paintings from nearly 3000 entries were selected by the jurors to be exhibited in the John Moores Painting Prize Exhibition at Walker Art Gallery in February. It includes: Dohyun Baek, Nicola Bealing, Rory Biddulph, G L Brierley, Louise Bristow, Hannah Brown, Lindsey Bull, Robbie Bushe, Mary Castle-Millner, Leah Michelle Cayol, Lara Cobden, Noemi S Conan, Paul Crook, Peter Davis, Pedro De Siqueira, Sam Douglas, Michelle Dovey, Sarah J Earnshaw, Liz Elton, Maria Farrar, Alan Fears, Michele Fletcher, Max Fletcher and Andrea Celeste La Forgia (collaboration), Tricia Gillman, Rachel Glittenberg, Melanie Goemans, Steph Goodger, Massimiliano Gottardi, Robin Greenwood, Christopher Hanson, Lily Hargreaves, Rebecca Harper, Georgia Hayes, Michael Hempstead, David Jacques. In 2018, juror Jenni Lomax talked about the selection process and the importance of work being seen by peers, even if an artist isn't part of the final exhibition. Stage 2 judging, John Moores Painting Prize at Walker Art Gallery © Robin Clewley The competition culminates in an exhibition held at the Walker Art Gallery every two years, which forms a key strand of the Liverpool Biennial. The prize is named for Sir John Moores, noted philanthropist, who established the award in 1957.The winning work and short-listed pieces are exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery as part of the Liverpool Biennial festival of visual art. From the Call for Entries which launched just weeks before the first national lockdown, to the challenge of bringing together hundreds of paintings from across the UK, we’re delighted to have got to this stage and to finally have a truly exciting longlist.”, Reflecting on the judging process, juror Jennifer Higgie commented: “It’s been a real challenge to narrow down our selection not simply because of the inevitable restrictions of the pandemic, but because we were faced with so many varied, imaginative and skilful works of art.”, Fellow juror, Michelle Williams Gamaker, added: “Judging the John Moores Painting Prize this year at a distance presented a new challenge in the Prize’s history. Photographer: Robin Clewley Previous winners of the prize include David Hockney (1967), Mary Martin (1969), Lisa Milroy (1989), Peter Doig (1993), Keith Coventry (2010) and Rose Wylie (2014). The judges have enjoyed getting up close to the paintings as they see them 'in the flesh'. 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