John Moore’s Painting Prize
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The John Moores Painting Prize is a biennial award to the best contemporary painting, submission is open to the public. 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.
John Moores (merchant)
Sir John Moores CBE was a British businessman and philanthropist most famous for the founding of the now defunct Littlewoods retail company that was located in Liverpool, England.-Early years:...
, noted philanthropist, who established the award in 1957. The winning work and short-listed pieces are exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery
Walker Art Gallery
The Walker Art Gallery is an art gallery in Liverpool, which houses one of the largest art collections in England, outside of London. It is part of the National Museums Liverpool group, and is promoted as "the National Gallery of the North" because it is not a local or regional gallery but is part...
as part of the Liverpool Biennial
Liverpool Biennial
Liverpool Biennial is a British international festival of contemporary art held in Liverpool. The festival comprises the International Exhibition, the John Moores Painting Prize, the Bloomberg New Contemporaries Exhibition and the Independents Biennial....
festival of visual art.
Winners
- 2010 Keith CoventryKeith CoventryKeith Coventry is a British artist and curator. In September 2010 his Spectrum Jesus painting won the £25,000 John Moores Painting Prize.-Early life:...
- 2008 Peter McDonaldPeter McDonald (artist)Peter McDonald is a Japanese/English artist who won the 2008 John Moores Painting Prize.-Life and career:McDonald was born in Tokyo and studied at St. Martins School of Art. He lives and works in London....
- 2006 Martin Greenland
- 2004 Alexis Harding
- 2002 Peter DaviesPeter Davies (artist)Peter Davies is an artist based in London.Davies studied at Goldsmiths College of Art, London. He has shown work internationally in exhibitions including Sensation at the Royal Academy of Art in London, Centro Brasileiro Britanico in Sao Paulo, Saatchi Gallery in London, Kunsthallen Brandts...
- 1999 Michael RaedeckerMichael RaedeckerMichael Raedecker is a Dutch artist based in London.Raedecker studied fashion at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam from 1985-1990...
- 1997 Dan Hays
- 1995 David Leapman
- 1993 Peter DoigPeter DoigPeter Doig is a contemporary artist born in Scotland. In 2007, a painting of Doig's, entitled White Canoe, sold at Sotheby's for $11.3 million, then an auction record for a living European artist.-Early life:...
- 1991 Andrzej Jackowski
- 1989 Lisa MilroyLisa MilroyLisa Milroy is a Canadian painter who lives and works in the UK. She is known for painting everyday items such as clothes, shoes and vases in the form of collections...
- 1987 Tim HeadTim HeadTim Head is a British artist.Born in London, He studied at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 1965 to 1969, where his teachers included Richard Hamilton and Ian Stephenson. His contemporary students included Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry...
- 1985 Bruce McLeanBruce McLeanBruce McLean is a Scottish performance artist and painter.McLean was born in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1961 to 1963, and at St Martin's School of Art, London,from 1963 to 1966...
- 1982 John HoylandJohn HoylandJohn Hoyland RA was a London-based British artist. He was one of the country's leading abstract painters.-Life:...
- 1980 Michael MoonMichael MoonMichael Moon is an American literary academic. He received his Ph.D in 1989 from Johns Hopkins University for the thesis Whitman in revision : the politics of corporealilty and textuality in the first four editions of Leaves of grass He has been a professor in the English department at Johns...
- 1978 Noel ForsterNoel ForsterNoel Armstrong Forster was a British artist who trained at King's College Newcastle a part of Durham University, graduating in 1957.He was born in Seaton Delaval, Northumberland and attended to Gosforth Grammar School....
- 1976 John WalkerJohn Walker (painter)John Walker is an English painter and printmaker.Walker studied in Birmingham. Some of his early work was inspired by abstract expressionism and post-painterly abstraction, and often combined apparently three-dimensional shapes with "flatter" elements...
- 1974 Myles Murphy
- 1972 Euan UglowEuan Uglow-Biography:Euan Uglow was born 10 March 1932 in London and as a child lived in Tulse Hill in south London. His father was an accountant, and Uglow went to the local grammar school in Tulse Hill, called Strand School. Afterwards he studied at Camberwell School of Art from 1948 to 1950...
- 1969 Richard HamiltonRichard Hamilton (artist)Richard William Hamilton, CH was a British painter and collage artist. His 1956 collage, Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?, produced for the This Is Tomorrow exhibition of the Independent Group in London, is considered by critics and historians to be one of the...
and Mary MartinMary Martin (Artist)Mary Adela Martin was a British sculptor best known for her work with her husband Kenneth Martin.... - 1967 David HockneyDavid HockneyDavid Hockney, CH, RA, is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who is based in Bridlington, Yorkshire and Kensington, London....
- 1965 Michael Tyzack
- 1963 Roger HiltonRoger HiltonRoger Hilton CBE was a pioneer of abstract art in post-war Britain. He was born in 1911 in Northwood, London and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London under Henry Tonks and also in Paris, where he developed links with painters on the Continent.In World War II he served in the Army, part...
- 1961 Henry Mundy
- 1959 Patrick HeronPatrick HeronPatrick Heron , was an English painter, writer and designer, based in St. Ives, Cornwall.- Early life :...
- 1957 Jack SmithJack Smith (artist)Jack Smith was a British realist and, later, abstract artist.- Life :Jack Smith was born in 1928 in Sheffield, Yorkshire....