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2002's winner, "Super Star Fucker - Andy Warhol Text Painting" by ], was noted by critic ] as being "undoubtedly the first painting in 'the Moores' ever to contain the f-word".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Searle |first=Adrian |date=2002-10-03 |title=John Moores awards |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2002/oct/03/artsfeatures1 |access-date=2025-01-12 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> That same year saw the introduction of the Visitors' Choice Prize, in which exhibition attendees are able to vote for their favourite work.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Winners of the John Moores Painting Prize Visitors' Choice Prize |url=https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/winners-of-john-moores-painting-prize-visitors-choice-prize# |access-date=2025-01-12 |website=National Museums Liverpool}}</ref> 2002's winner, "Super Star Fucker - Andy Warhol Text Painting" by ], was noted by critic ] as being "undoubtedly the first painting in 'the Moores' ever to contain the f-word".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Searle |first=Adrian |date=2002-10-03 |title=John Moores awards |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2002/oct/03/artsfeatures1 |access-date=2025-01-12 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> That same year saw the introduction of the Visitors' Choice Prize, in which exhibition attendees are able to vote for their favourite work.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Winners of the John Moores Painting Prize Visitors' Choice Prize |url=https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/winners-of-john-moores-painting-prize-visitors-choice-prize# |access-date=2025-01-12 |website=National Museums Liverpool}}</ref>

2004's exhibition was described by Laura Gascoigne in '']'' as being "dominated by three current trends: obsessive pattern-making, surreal 'bedroom' painting and cheerless realism".<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gascoigne |first=Laura |date=2004-10-09 |title=Merseyside invasion |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A123677182/ITOF?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=9405594a |journal=] |volume=296 |issue=9192 |pages=61 |via=Gale}}</ref> That year's prize was won by ].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2004-09-21 |title=Scouse stew |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2004/sep/21/1 |access-date=2025-01-12 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>


The John Moores Painting Prize China was launched in 2010 in Shanghai. Alongside the British exhibition, five winners from the Chinese competition were shown at the Walker Art Gallery. This has become a regular feature of the UK prize exhibition.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Ten moments that changed the John Moores Painting Prize |url=https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/ten-moments-changed-john-moores-painting-prize |access-date=2025-01-12 |website=National Museums Liverpool}}</ref> The John Moores Painting Prize China was launched in 2010 in Shanghai. Alongside the British exhibition, five winners from the Chinese competition were shown at the Walker Art Gallery. This has become a regular feature of the UK prize exhibition.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Ten moments that changed the John Moores Painting Prize |url=https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/ten-moments-changed-john-moores-painting-prize |access-date=2025-01-12 |website=National Museums Liverpool}}</ref>

] won first prize in 2012, having been a runner up in 2004.<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |title=Sarah Pickstone |url=https://shop.royalacademy.org.uk/sarah-pickstone |access-date=11 December 2024 |website=] |language=en}}</ref> This made her the first female winner of the prize since Lisa Milroy over thirty years earlier. Pickstone's winning painting, ''Stevie Smith and the Willow,'' was based on an illustration accompanying ] 1957 poem "]".<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news |date=14 September 2012 |title=John Moores Painting Prize won by Sarah Pickstone |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19598723 |access-date=11 December 2024 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref> Pickstone said the painting's depiction of a girl bathing under a willow tree "might represent some kind of everywoman - an artist or mother or child", and while the poem is "very dark", she wanted to "make something more joyous out of the poem" with her painting. Judge for the prize, ], said of the work: "It's a painting of one artist reflected through another, a meeting of literary and pictorial minds".<ref name="bbc" />


In 2013, artist ], noted for his sleeve design for ]' 1967 album '']'', was named as the prize's first patron.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Catherine |date=2013-05-03 |title=Sir Peter Blake appointed the first patron of the John Moores Painting Prize |url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/sir-peter-blake-appointed-first-3362497 |access-date=2025-01-12 |website=Liverpool Echo |language=en}}</ref> In 2013, artist ], noted for his sleeve design for ]' 1967 album '']'', was named as the prize's first patron.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Catherine |date=2013-05-03 |title=Sir Peter Blake appointed the first patron of the John Moores Painting Prize |url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/sir-peter-blake-appointed-first-3362497 |access-date=2025-01-12 |website=Liverpool Echo |language=en}}</ref>
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A prize for artists in their final year of an art education program, or within two years of graduating, was introduced in 2020, the Emerging Artist Prize.<ref name=":2" /> The first winner of this was Kiki Xuebing Wang, who also won the Visitors' Choice prize the same year.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-06-25 |title=Shoe painting wins John Moores Painting Prize Visitors' Choice award |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-57608970 |access-date=2025-01-12 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref> A prize for artists in their final year of an art education program, or within two years of graduating, was introduced in 2020, the Emerging Artist Prize.<ref name=":2" /> The first winner of this was Kiki Xuebing Wang, who also won the Visitors' Choice prize the same year.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-06-25 |title=Shoe painting wins John Moores Painting Prize Visitors' Choice award |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-57608970 |access-date=2025-01-12 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref>


] won the 2021 prize with her work ''The Common.'' Judge Michelle Williams Gamaker commented that the painting "struck a chord during the judging perhaps because it depicts the very thing we are currently unable to share" due to ], and that it "embodies the deeply social nature of humans".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brown |first=Mark |last2= |first2= |date=4 March 2021 |title=Painting of a throng of humanity wins John Moores art prize |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/mar/04/kathryn-maple-painting-throng-humanity-wins-john-moores-art-prize |access-date=8 December 2024 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=4 March 2021 |title=Kathryn Maple's 'deeply social' scene wins John Moores Painting Prize |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56236995 |access-date=9 December 2024 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref> Maple subsequently presented a solo exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery. She is only the second of the prize's winners to do so, after 2019's winner ].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2 December 2022 |title=Walker Art Gallery to host art prize winner Kathryn Maple's first show |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-63834967 |access-date=8 December 2024 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref> ''The Common'' is on permanent display at the gallery. Maple told ''The Guardian'', "You always hope your work will get into a national collection so you can return to see it when you’re 80 with your friends".<ref name=":03">{{Cite news |last=Wise |first=Louis |date=18 March 2021 |title='I went into a cold flurry and fell down my steps' – painter Kathryn Maple on her John Moores win |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/mar/18/painter-kathryn-maple-john-moores-win-covid-hockney |access-date=9 December 2024 |newspaper=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
⚫ ] won first prize in 2023, having entered 10 times since 1976. He was previously shortlisted twice, and had served on the prize's judging panel.<ref name=":3" /> In 1993, Tim Hilton had already referred to him as an "old lag" of the prize, alongside ], the "unofficial mayor of Liverpool" for his frequent inclusion in Moores exhibitions.<ref name=":0" />

⚫ ] won first prize in 2023, having entered 10 times since 1976. He was previously shortlisted twice, and has served on the prize's judging panel.<ref name=":3" /> In 1993, Tim Hilton had already referred to Crowley as an "old lag" of the prize alongside ], calling the latter the "unofficial mayor of Liverpool" for his frequent inclusion in Moores exhibitions.<ref name=":0" />


== First prize winners == == First prize winners ==

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Award
John Moores Painting Prize
Awarded forPainting prize
LocationLiverpool
CountryEngland
Hosted byWalker Art Gallery
Reward(s)£25,000
First awarded1957
Websitewww.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk

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.

History

Liverpool businessman John Moores, aside from his work with the Littlewoods retail and football betting company, was a keen amateur painter. Out of frustration with the difficulty he had in finding an audience for his paintings, he financed an exhibition to which other artists in a similar situation could send their work, and compete to win prize money. The first such exhibition was held in 1957, with the winning entry becoming the property of Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery. In the prize's early years, the winning painting was not always acquired by the gallery, but this has been done consistently since 1978. Up until 1963, the prize exhibitions also included sculpture, since which time it has only allowed paintings.

Journalist Tim Hilton, who judged the prize in 1988, wrote in 1993 that the prizewinners generally "reflect the mood of the year". For example: the first prize in 1957, while kitchen sink realism was en vogue, went to Jack Smith and the junior prize the same year went to John Bratby, both artists working in that style. The junior prize was only awarded up until 1967.

Early sixties prizes for Roger Hilton and Henry Mundy reflected the new decade's tendency towards colourful painting, moving on to minimal colour fields (Michael Tyzack, 1965 winner) and pop-style winners for David Hockney and Richard Hamilton in '67 and '69 respectively. Early seventies winners reverted to a more figurative style that Hilton likened to that of the Euston Road School (Euan Uglow, 1972 winner, and Myles Murphy, 1974 winner), in contrast to the conceptual art prevalent at the time.

A string of abstract artist winners between 1976 and 1982 (John Walker, Noel Forster, Mick Moon, John Hoyland) meant that, according to Hilton, the prize had become "predictable", and the winning painting would usually be "large, amply proportioned, handsome, almost over-serious and always painted by a man". In Hilton's view, the two subsequent winners were a reaction to this seriousness: in 1985, winner Bruce McLean "cheekily imitate the pomp of painterly abstraction", while 1987's winner Tim Head parodied serious art with a repetitive pattern of cows heads.

1989's winner was Lisa Milroy. She was the first woman to win the prize outright, though Mary Martin shared the 1969 prize with Richard Hamilton. National Museums Liverpool also states that 1989 was the first time the prize was judged by a majority female jury. All-male juries had not been uncommon up until 1985.

2002's winner, "Super Star Fucker - Andy Warhol Text Painting" by Peter Davies, was noted by critic Adrian Searle as being "undoubtedly the first painting in 'the Moores' ever to contain the f-word". That same year saw the introduction of the Visitors' Choice Prize, in which exhibition attendees are able to vote for their favourite work.

2004's exhibition was described by Laura Gascoigne in The Spectator as being "dominated by three current trends: obsessive pattern-making, surreal 'bedroom' painting and cheerless realism". That year's prize was won by Alexis Harding.

The John Moores Painting Prize China was launched in 2010 in Shanghai. Alongside the British exhibition, five winners from the Chinese competition were shown at the Walker Art Gallery. This has become a regular feature of the UK prize exhibition.

Sarah Pickstone won first prize in 2012, having been a runner up in 2004. This made her the first female winner of the prize since Lisa Milroy over thirty years earlier. Pickstone's winning painting, Stevie Smith and the Willow, was based on an illustration accompanying Smith's 1957 poem "Not Waving But Drowning". Pickstone said the painting's depiction of a girl bathing under a willow tree "might represent some kind of everywoman - an artist or mother or child", and while the poem is "very dark", she wanted to "make something more joyous out of the poem" with her painting. Judge for the prize, Fiona Banner, said of the work: "It's a painting of one artist reflected through another, a meeting of literary and pictorial minds".

In 2013, artist Peter Blake, noted for his sleeve design for the Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, was named as the prize's first patron.

A prize for artists in their final year of an art education program, or within two years of graduating, was introduced in 2020, the Emerging Artist Prize. The first winner of this was Kiki Xuebing Wang, who also won the Visitors' Choice prize the same year.

Kathryn Maple won the 2021 prize with her work The Common. Judge Michelle Williams Gamaker commented that the painting "struck a chord during the judging perhaps because it depicts the very thing we are currently unable to share" due to Covid restrictions, and that it "embodies the deeply social nature of humans". Maple subsequently presented a solo exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery. She is only the second of the prize's winners to do so, after 2019's winner Jacqui Hallum. The Common is on permanent display at the gallery. Maple told The Guardian, "You always hope your work will get into a national collection so you can return to see it when you’re 80 with your friends".

Graham Crowley won first prize in 2023, having entered 10 times since 1976. He was previously shortlisted twice, and has served on the prize's judging panel. In 1993, Tim Hilton had already referred to Crowley as an "old lag" of the prize alongside Adrian Henri, calling the latter the "unofficial mayor of Liverpool" for his frequent inclusion in Moores exhibitions.

First prize winners

See also

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