John Moores Painting Prize 2025 Call for Entries open now

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.

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).

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

Deadline 24 March 2025

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