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 Sir John Moores (25 January 1896 – 25 September 1993) was an English businessman, telegraphist, football club owner, politician and philanthropist, most famous for the founding of the now defunct Littlewoods retail and football pools compa ...

, noted philanthropist, who established the award in 1957. The winning work and short-listed pieces are exhibited at the

Walker Art Gallery The Walker Art Gallery is an art gallery in Liverpool, which houses one of the largest art collections in England outside London. It is part of the National Museums Liverpool group. History of the Gallery The Walker Art Gallery's collection ...

as part of the

Liverpool Biennial Liverpool Biennial is the largest international contemporary art festival in the United Kingdom. Every two years, the city of Liverpool hosts an extensive range of artworks, projects, and a programme of events. The biennial commissions leading ...

festival of visual art.

Winners

* 1957 Jack Smith - "Creation and Crucifixion" * 1959

Patrick Heron Patrick Heron (30 January 1920 – 20 March 1999) was a British abstract and figurative artist, critic, writer, and polemicist, who lived in Zennor, Cornwall. Heron was recognised as one of the leading painters of his generation. Influenced b ...

- "Black Painting - Red, Brown and Olive : July 1959" * 1961 Henry Mundy - "Cluster" * 1963

Roger Hilton Roger Hilton CBE (1911–1975) was a pioneer of abstract art in post-Second World War Britain. Often associated with the 'middle generation' of St Ives painters – Terry Frost, Patrick Heron, Peter Lanyon & Bryan Wynter – he spent much o ...

- "March 1963" * 1965 Michael Tyzack - " Alesso 'B' " * 1967

David Hockney David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists o ...

- "

Peter Getting Out of Nick's Pool ''Peter Getting Out of Nick's Pool'' is a 1966 Acrylic paint, acrylic-on-canvas painting by the British pop art artist David Hockney. It depicts the rear view of a naked man climbing out of a swimming pool outside a contemporary house. It is he ...

" * 1969 Richard Hamilton and

Mary Martin Mary Virginia Martin (December 1, 1913 – November 3, 1990) was an American actress and singer. A muse of Rodgers and Hammerstein, she originated many leading roles on stage over her career, including Nellie Forbush in '' South Pacific'' (194 ...

- "Toaster" and "Cross" (respectively) * 1972

Euan Uglow Euan Ernest Richard Uglow (10 March 1932 – 31 August 2000) was a British painter. He is best known for his nude and still life paintings, such as ''German Girl'' and ''Skull''. Biography Euan Uglow was born in 1932 in London. As a child, he l ...

- "Nude, 12 vertical positions from the eye" * 1974 Myles Murphy - "Figure with Yellow Foreground" * 1976 John Walker - "Juggernaut with plume - for P Neruda" * 1978

Noel Forster Noel Armstrong Forster (15 June 1932 – 7 December 2007) was a British artist who trained at King's College Newcastle a part of Durham University, graduating in 1957. Forster was born in Seaton Delaval, Northumberland and attended to Gosfo ...

- "A painting in six stages with a silk triangle" * 1980 Michael Moon - "Box-room" * 1982

John Hoyland John Hoyland RA (12 October 1934 – 31 July 2011) was a London-based British artist. He was one of the country's leading abstract painters.

- "Broken Bride 13.6.82" * 1995 David Leapman - Double-Tongued Knowability * 1993

Peter Doig Peter Doig ( ; born 17 April 1959) is a Scottish painter. One of the most renowned living figurative painters, he has settled in Trinidad since 2002. In 2007, his painting ''White Canoe'' sold at Sotheby's for $11.3 million, then an auction rec ...

- "Blotter" * 1991 Andrzej Jackowski - "The Beekeeper's son" * 1989

Lisa Milroy Lisa Milroy (born 16 January 1959 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is an Anglo-Canadian artist known for her still life paintings of everyday objects. In the 1980s, Milroy’s paintings featured ordinary objects depicted against an off-white back ...

- "Handles" * 1987

Tim Head Tim Head (born 1946) is a British artist. Biography Born in London, Head 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 ...

- "Cow mutations" * 1985

Bruce McLean Bruce McLean (born 1944) is a Scottish sculptor, performance artist and painter. McLean was born in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1961 to 1963, and at Saint Martin's School of Art, London, from 1963 to 1966. At Saint Martin ...

- Oriental Garden

Kyoto Kyoto (; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. , the ci ...

* 1997 Dan Hays - "Harmony in Green" * 1999

Michael Raedecker Michael Raedecker (born 12 May 1963) is a Dutch artist who works in the United Kingdom. Raedecker was born in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. From 1985 to 1990 he studied fashion design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, and then, fr ...

- "Mirage" * 2002 Peter Davies - "Super Star Fucker -

Andy Warhol Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationsh ...

Text Painting" * 2004 Alexis Harding - "Slump/Fear (orange/black)" * 2006 Martin Greenland - "Before

Vermeer Johannes Vermeer ( , , see below; also known as Jan Vermeer; October 1632 – 15 December 1675) was a Dutch Baroque Period painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. During his lifetime, he was a moderately succe ...

's Clouds" * 2008 Peter McDonald - "

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" * 2010

Keith Coventry Keith Coventry is a British artist and curator.Burgess, John, Coventry, Keith, Hale, Matt, Noble, Paul, Owen, Peter. "City Racing: The Life and Times of an Artist-Run Gallery ardcover. Black Dog Publishing Ltd; illustrated edition (11 November ...

- "Spectrum Jesus" * 2012 Sarah Pickstone - "

Stevie Smith Florence Margaret Smith, known as Stevie Smith (20 September 1902 – 7 March 1971), was an English poet and novelist. She won the Cholmondeley Award and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. A play, '' Stevie'' by Hugh Whitemore, bas ...

and the Willow" * 2014

Rose Wylie Rose Wylie (born 14 October 1934) is a British painter. She is an artist known for creating large paintings on unprimed canvas.Salle, David (12 May 2022). "Going on Her Nerve". ''The New York Review of Books'' 69 (8): 32–34. Life and work She ...

- "PV Windows and Floorboards" * 2016 Michael Simpson - "Squint (19)" * 2018 Jacqui Hallum - "King and Queen of Wands" * 2021 Kathryn Maple - "The Common"

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