There are only a few weeks left to visit the John Moores Painting Prize 2012, won by Sarah Pickstone, before the exhibition closes on 6 January.
Artist Andrew Bracey made repeated visits to the show at Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery and recorded his thoughts on a-n’s Interface. He feels this year’s show is ‘both coherent and an attempt to address (without compromising on quality) some of the charges murmured against the prize in the past … there were hints towards the ‘expanded field of painting’ … painting as conceptual practice and of not picking the usual suspects.’
Ellen Bell took an observational approach in her review of the show, focusing on the audience’s reaction and noting: ‘Young men, contemporary dandies with high collars and gel-shocked hair, nudged in close to heavily lipsticked women, luxuriously spangled. “Such a strong show”, “so beautifully hung”, “the best yet”, they said; their words floating up high above the buzzing throng to hover still in the perfect whiteness of the stuccoed ceiling.’
Bell and Bracey were each awarded Interface bursaries to visit and independently review the exhibition.
Your chance to win John Moores’ goodies!
As part of our partnership with John Moores Painting Prize, we have a selection of giveaways on offer to a-n members, including: an exhibition catalogue signed by Sarah Pickstone, an exhibition catalogue signed by the Prize’s patron Sir Peter Blake, a limited edition print by Laura Keeble of her exhibited work I’d like to teach the world to sing and some A3-sized exhibition posters.
For a chance to receive one, email [email protected] with ‘John Moores Painting Prize giveaway’ in the subject line, stating which you’d most like and why. Deadline for entries is 6 January 2013. This offer is open to a-n members only, to join click here.
More on a-n.co.uk:
Reviews of John Moores Painting Prize – from 2008 to 2012.
John Moores winner announced – Sarah Pickstone is announced First Prize winner of John Moores Painting Prize 2012.
Sarah Pickstone: “I’m a very intuitive artist” – We talk to John Moores Painting Prize 2012 winner Sarah Pickstone, the Prize’s patron Peter Blake, and judge George Shaw.
John Moores Painting Prize – Tim Birch profiles John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize in the build up to the twenty-fifth exhibition in 2008.
