John Moores Painting Prize 2025 Call for Entries open now
Deadline: 24 March 2025
Submission Fee: Free
Eligibility: John Moores Painting Prize 2025 is open to artists – working with paint - aged 18 years or above, 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).
John Moores Painting Prize 2025 is open to all UK artists – the undiscovered, emerging or established – working with paint. JMPP25 is judged anonymously by a jury of art world and creative industry figures. They will select the prize-winners and the exhibiting works in the JMPP25 exhibition at Walker Art Gallery, which opens in September 2025.
What you get: If selected, artists will exhibit in the JMPP25 exhibition at Walker Art Gallery, which opens in September 2025, plus an exhibition fee. Additional 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
