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Event History
The John Moores Painting Prize is the UK's most well-known painting competition, bringing together the best contemporary painting from across the UK to Liverpool. First held in 1957, the competition was named after its founding sponsor Sir John Moores. The prize is open to all artists working with paint, who are aged 18 years or over and live or are professionally based in the UK. Showcasing the best new painting produced in Britain today, the prize has culminated in an exhibition held at the Walker Art Gallery every two years.
John Moores Painting Prize 2025 is open to all UK artists – the undiscovered, emerging or established – working with paint. You must be aged 18 years or above on 24 March 2025 who live in the UK or are UK-based (this includes England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Channel Islands and Isle of Man. It does not include the Republic of Ireland).
JMPP25 is judged anonymously by a jury of art world and creative industry figures. The jury for 2025 are: Louise Giovanelli, Gemma Rolls-Bentley, Michael Simpson, Dr. Zoé Whitley and Zhang Enli. They will select the prize-winners and the exhibiting works in the JMPP25 exhibition at Walker Art Gallery, which opens in September 2025. If selected by the jury to exhibit in the JMPP25 exhibition, artists will receive a fee.
The prizes awarded include:
First Prize: £25,000 and a solo exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool
Lady Grantchester Prize: £5,000, £2,500 in Winsor & Newton art materials, and a month-long residency in London
Visitor's Choice (selected by visitors to the exhibition): £2,025
