John Moores Ikon Prize 2012 - Shortlisted Artists

The artists shortlisted for The John Moores Painting Prize 2012 - the UK's biggest contemporary ikon prize - cause got been announced.  They are - in alphabetical order

The Greater Light past times Biggs & Collings
2012, crude on canvas, 203.5 x 203 cm
The Greater Light by Biggs & Collings.
A vast together with intricate blueprint forms a articulation entry past times married couple; Emma Biggs, who conceives the painting’s color together with broadcaster, Mathew Collings, who applies it. 
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M is many by Ian Law

2011, crude on linen, 232.7 x 276.2 cm
grand is many past times Ian Law
A large dark missive of the alphabet 'M' takes upwardly the whole canvas, delineating the infinite together with confusing perspectives.
(More well-nigh Ian Law)

Gallery by Stephen Nicholas
2011, crude on canvas, 152 x 183 cm
Gallery past times Stephen Nicholas
Part of a serial of works, this eerie ikon explores a set out of dualities, including gallery/institution together with abstraction/figuration.
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Stevie Smith together with the Willow by Sarah Pickstone.
2011, oil, enamel together with acrylic on aluminium panel, 198.3 x 229 cm
Stevie Smith together with the Willow past times Sarah Pickstone
A haunting together with frail scene inspired past times Smith's drawing to accompany her 1957 poem, Not Waving But Drowning.
(More well-nigh Sarah Pickstone)

Untitled Kerbstone Painting (MJK) by Narbi Price
2012, Acrylic on canvas, 91.5 x 122 cm
Untitled Kerbstone Painting (MJK) past times Narbi Price
The worn yellowish diamond patterns of the corner of a loading bay alongside the scuffed marks of activity on the walls together with surfaces.
(More well-nigh Narbi Price)

The winner of the John Moores Painting Prize 2012 volition last announced past times Sir Peter Blake side past times side saturday on the opening twenty-four hr stream of the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art.

The 2012 judges are
  • Alan Yentob, creative managing director of the BBC; 
  • previous John Moores exhibitors together with Turner Prize nominees, George Shaw together with Angela de la Cruz; 
  • Merseyside-born YBA together with Turner Prize nominee Fiona Banner, and 
  • director of the Whitechapel, Iwona Blazwick.

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