A stunning collection of paintings, sculpture and decorative art from the 13th century to the present day.
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A stunning collection of paintings, sculpture and decorative art from the 13th century to the present day.
John Moores 2012
The exhibition for JM2012 will run from 15 September 2012 - 6 January 2013.
Photo: mischa haller
Fiona Banner is an artist who lives and works in London. She was short-listed for the Turner Prize 2002 and her installation Harrier and Jaguar was at Tate Britain in 2010. Her public art works include “Full Stops”, large 3D sculptures of full stops, outside the GLA building on the South Bank in London. She has exhibited widely in Europe and America. Her work is represented in many collections in the UK and abroad.
Photo: Ione Saizar
Angela de la Cruz was born in La Coruña, Spain in 1965 where she studied philosophy at the University of Santiago de Compostela. In 1989 she moved to London where she studied art at Slade School of Art (University College, London). She has become best known for paintings which are deliberately broken or distorted. In 2005 de la Cruz suffered from a brain haemorrhage; while in a coma for several months, she gave birth to her daughter. Her recovery has been slow but her first solo exhibition in the UK, entitled 'After', was held at Camden Arts Centre in April 2010. In May 2010 she was nominated for the Turner Prize.
George Shaw
George Shaw was born in 1966 in Coventry and graduated with a MA in painting at the Royal College of Art in London. He is based in Ilfracombe, North Devon. Shaw is noted for his highly detailed almost Photorealist works which celebrate the mundane suburban landscape, working from photographs taken of and around his childhood home on the Tile Hill Estate, Coventry. Shaw was nominated for the Turner Prize 2011 for this show.
Iwona Blazwick
Iwona Blazwick lives and works in London, where she has been Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery since 2001. A writer, curator and broadcaster, she was Director of Exhibitions at London’s Institute of Contemporary Art from 1987 until 1992. Iwona Blazwick has been a judge for the Turner Prize (1993), the Jerwood Prize (1997), Citigroup Photography Prize (2001), Paul Hamlyn Awards (2002), the Wolf Prize in Arts (2003), The Vincent (2004), The Hiroshima Art Prize (2004), The Clark Prize (2005), The Wolfgang Hahn Prize (2007) and the Venice Biennale Golden Lion Award (2007). She chairs the Jury of the ongoing MaxMara Art Prize for Women.
Alan Yentob
Born in 1947, Alan Yentob is the Creative Director of the BBC and Editor and Presenter of the Imagine programme. A celebrated and award-winning programme maker, Alan quickly came to personify the creative spirit of the BBC.
Yentob has been head of music and arts, controller of BBC Two, controller of BBC One, director of programmes and director of drama, entertainment and children's programmes. His outside responsibilities include Chair of the Trustees of the children’s charity Kids Company.