Fact File

John Moores Exhibition Fact File

John Moores 25, 2008

• No purchase prize, but 1st prizewinner purchased for the Gallery's collection
• Celebrating 50 years of the exhibition it is retitled 'The John Moores 25 contemporary painting prize'
• Visitors Choice prize raised to £2,008 to mark European Capital of Culture year
  

Selected by:

• Jake and Dinos Chapman
• Sacha Craddock
• Graham Crowley
• Paul Morrison

 

Conditions of entry:

Artists living or based in the UK; one work, new or recent (preferably executed since JM24), wholly or partly in any painted medium; designed to hang on a wall and projecting no more than 0.5m; additional height and width restrictions.

Number of entries 3, 322

Number of exhibits 52

 

Prizewinners:

Peter McDonald 1st prize £25,000

4 prizes of £2,500:
Julian Brain
Geraint Evans
Grant Foster
Neal Jones

Visitors' Choice winner £2,800:
Julian Brain