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John Moores 24
exhibition of contemporary painting
Henny Acloque / Guy Allott / Carolina Ambida / Lucy
Annat / Emma Bennett / Elaine Brown / Alan Brooks / Matthew
Burrows / Gordon Cheung / Leigh Clarke / Graham Crowley /
Matt Davies / Geraint Evans / Cynthia Girard / Martin Greenland
/ Andrew Griffiths / Andy Harper / David Harrison / Vincent
Hawkins / Claude Heath / Günther Herbst / Gerard Hemsworth
/ Dale Holmes / Philip Jones / Neil Kelly / David Leapman
/ David Mabb / Jeff McMillan / David G. Martin / Eliza Meath
Baker / Andrea Medjesi–Jones / Nicholas Middleton /
Richard Moon / Jost Münster / Penny Neville-Lee / Alicia
Paz / Sachiko Odashima / Hugo Platt / Daphne Plessner / Alex
Ramsay / Andreas Rüthi / Gary ‘Dollman’ Sollars
/ Ben Spiers / Arabella Stewart / Michael Stubbs / Paul Thomas
/ Covadonga Valdés / Julian Wakelin / Caroline Walker
/ James White / Emily Wolfe / Clare Woods
The John Moores competition produces Britain's leading contemporary
painting exhibition. John Moores 24 coincides
with the Liverpool Biennial and runs from
16 September to 26 November 2006 at the Walker Art Gallery.
The competition is open to anyone, from the enthusiastic amateur
to the top professional. There is a two stage entry procedure:
first stage slide submission, second stage sending in of actual
works. It is judged anonymously, purely on the merit of each
individual work, without the identity of the artist being
revealed to the jurors. £25,000 will be awarded to the
first prizewinner and there will be four additional prizes
of £2500 each. A £1000 visitors' choice prize
will also be up for grabs.
This year’s jury includes two of the biggest names in
British art, promising to make the show one of the most exciting
in the competition's history. Conceptual artist Tracey Emin
and the eminent Sir Peter Blake join former John Moores' prizewinner
Jason Brooks, curator of fine art at the Walker Art Gallery,
Ann Bukantas and Director of Visual Arts at the British Council,
Andrea Rose. Find out more about the
jury here.
A total of 2300 entries were submitted – the largest
number of entries for 43 years and 52 have been selcted for
the finals. Julian Treuherz, keeper of galleries says,“this
is a fantastic endorsement of the John Moores which has been
a pace-setter for British painting since 1957. These figures
show that, contrary to some opinion, painting is alive and
well – infact it is thriving.”
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