The Walker Art Gallery is launching two major exhibitions this September.
The UK’s largest painting competition, the John Moores Painting Prize opens at the Walker Art Gallery on 18th September until 3rd January 2011, as part of the Liverpool Biennial.
Also opening from 18th September to 12th December 2010, is an exhibition by Turner Prize-winning artist Wolfgang Tillmans, which will be displayed among the gallery’s permanent collection.
The John Moores Painting Prize, is the biggest of its kind the UK, with a first prize of £25,000, plus four runner-up prizes of £2,500.
It is entered anonymously and open to all UK-based artists working with paint.
This year’s judges are the artists Gary Hume, Goshka Macuga, Ged Quinn and Alison Watt and curator / critic Sir Norman Rosenthal.
Wolfgang Tillmans features nine photographic works, dating from 2004 to 2009, recently acquired by the Arts Council Collection, as well as a number of works from Tillmans’ own collection, including one made specially for the Walker Art Gallery.
The photographs are displayed as installations and interventions and reflect the artist’s very personal response to the Walker Art Gallery's permanent collection. Drawing out connections between his own work and traditional genres such as still life, landscape and portraiture, his selection ranges across a broad span of art history.
The works are displayed among the medieval and renaissance collection, a painting by one of Liverpool’s most famous artists, George Stubbs and contemporary masters, such as Patrick Caulfield.
John Moores Painting Prize, Shortlisted artists:
1. Cornelia Baltes: THERE YOU ARE!
2. Jon Braley: Untitled
3. GL Brierley: Jilly Jiggy
4. Deborah Burnstone: Freeway
5. Darren Coffield: Episodical
6. Keith Coventry: Spectrum Jesus
7. Edward Coyle: Multiplicity study
8. Theo Cuff: Untitled
9. Stuart Cumberland: YLLW240
10. Ian Davenport: Puddle Painting: Dioxazine
11. Philip Diggle: For Your Pleasure
12. Tim Ellis: United in Different Guises XXXXIII
13. Geraint Evans: An Alpine Biodome
14. Adam Fearon: Untitled
15. Damien Flood: Drip
16. Nick Fox: Metatopia
17. David Fulford: Near the Site
18. Mikey Georgeson: Untitled (Dopamine - Molecule of Intuition)
19. Chris Hamer: Crook
20. Andy Harper: Frau Troffea
21. Richard Harrison: Mountain Peaks
22. Sigrid Holmwood: Butchering a Pig
23. Phil Illingworth: 3D painting No.1 (experiments with colour reflection)
24. Lee Johnson: The Kerchief or Dr Olfato's Welcome
25. Neal Jones: Orange Paving
26. Joseph Long: Hortus Botanicus
27. Elizabeth McDonald: Bee Keepers I
28. Nicholas Middleton: Protest, 1st April 2009
29. Michael Miller: Suspended Animation
30. Matthew Mounsey: Prehistoric Sex Machine
31. Jost Münster: To the left
32. Cara Nahaul: Somewhere between prayer and agenda
33. Narbi Price: Untitled See Saw Painting
34. Steven Proudfoot: The Party
35. Sabrina Shah: Witness
36. Annabelle Shelton: Helter Skelter Runway
37. George Sherlock: Polycrylic Decades
38. Michael Simpson: Bench Painting Untitled
39. Henrietta Simson: Giotto's Template
40. Veronica Smirnoff: Lubo
41. Ian Peter Smith: Matter at the edge
42. Daniel Sturgis: Still Squallings
43. Geraldine Swayne: Industrialist on Wheels
44. Jason Thompson: Refractions (Robert Hooke)
45. Christian Ward: Frontier Monument
The John Moores Painting Prize has a reputation for defining the shifts and trends in one of the most enduring mediums of all, paint.
Now, in its 53rd year the competition boasts a roll call of esteemed winners, including David Hockney and Richard Hamilton, who went on to find fame and acclaim after winning the prize, and Peter Doig, who described winning the John Moores in 1993 as a pivotal moment in his career.
* John Moores Painting Prize China
This year, for the first time, a parallel prize The John Moores Painting Prize China will form part of the Biennial Festival of Contemporary Art of Painting in China.
The five prizewinners from the Chinese competition will be exhibited in the Walker Art Gallery, alongside the UK prizewinners. This has been organised by the John Moores Liverpool Exhibiton Trust and the University of Shanghai.
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