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Thanks for being a part of John Moores painting prize exhibition #johnmoorespaintingprize （在 寶龍美術館） https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq7rvWKL1iw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[alisonlittleartist]

Plenty worth checking out at the John Moores Painting Prize exhibition is on at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool 👉http://alisonlittle.blog/2025/09/12/2025-john-moores-painting-prize/

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2025 John Moores Painting Prize

Discover the highlights of the 2025 John Moores Painting Prize at Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery. From Ally Fallon’s award-winning abstract,

2025 John Moores Painting Prize

Discover the highlights of the 2025 John Moores Painting Prize at Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery. From Ally Fallon’s award-winning abstract,

[alisonlittleartist]

[historyartsgeek]

Graham Crowley: I paint shadows at The Walker Art Gallery

Graham Crowley is the 2023 winner of the John Moores Painting Prize, which is presented at The Walker Art Gallery. Winning the John Moores Painting Prize is a massive deal as it is recognised as the most prestigious and most respected prize for painting within the United Kingdom. For painters this is the prize of all prizes to win as it allows for recognition, acknowledgment and amazing opportunities. This includes having a solo show in the Walker itself and for the artist’s work to be a part of the galleries permanent collection. One of the other many reasons the John Moores Painting Prize is so highly regarded is because artists can anonymously submit their work to be judged by an informed and professional peer group review so painters feel their work will be judged fairly because of these reasons. With his work, Crowley reminds me a lot of the likes of J. M. W. Turner is where he uses light to create his work as to me, he is the master of light. Turner is one of my favourite painters so seeing Graham Crowley use shadow to create his paintings gives me the same feel I experience when I view Turner’s work. The winning piece of the John Moores Painting Prize was Light Industry, and it is in Crowley’s opinion his best work he has ever created.

The Walker Art Gallery

Crowley has said himself that “I paint shadows. Light fascinates me, and that involves not just shadows but reflections. Whilst they’re essentially intangible and illusory. It’s their indeterminate nature that appeals and makes them an appropriate subject for painting.” This is what Crowley focuses on when he creates his work. He focuses on creating shadows and shapes and reflections rather than on major detail and colour. His work in tonal. By doing this he uses just two colours: Payne’s grey and cadmium yellow. On one of the walls of the exhibition is displayed a poem about the colour cadmium yellow by Tamar Yoseloff entitled Cadmium Lemon:

Not hot / like fickle summer, / more like sun smudged / under a thumb, belch / of smoke, endless / driving rain.

It’s a sour kiss / on sallow skin, a stench / of sulphur in the air, / jaundiced slide to distance / you didn’t notice until / you were on the other side.

It’s the yell- / ow of hazard, / of hornet, a fake gold locket, / a bottle blonde, it warms you / with false promise even as / you try to catch its / failing light.

The poem itself indicates how the colour it is describing is almost tacky and very much in your face with the descriptions of the fake gold and how the colour links to hazard. So, it seems unusual how calming these paintings are to me, but it works rather well.

The winning piece, Light Industry, created in 2022 is such a fantastic scene. The area that is depicted reminds the viewer of a distant childhood memory of a grandfather’s workshop or garage. Specifically in Crowley’s piece the scene is cluttered and illustrates an immense amount of detail without Crowley using small brushes or anything as such to create this detail. It looks as though he has used a regular paint brush size to swiftly create movement of these three-dimensional objects. This is seen in the likes of the tools hung on the walls, the handles on the boiler like object on the left of the piece, the ladder on the wall. The stool on the floor, the wires strewn throughout the painting, the small clock on the wall and so on. Everything is so clear in the piece that you can tell what the scene in portraying straight away, even without his using traditional painting techniques. His work reminds me heavily of impressionism, which makes sense with the link I made earlier with Turner as he was a romantic painter, which did influence the likes of impressionism.

Light Industry, Graham Crowley, 2022

One of my favourite works in this exhibition was Dark Arc 11 which was created in 2024. The lighting in this piece is so stark and the brush strokes are so satisfying to view. The ladder in this piece is almost completely untouched by shadow and the shadow underneath it is so well done in theme with the rest of the lighting in the piece. Everything just works well together. It feels as though I could step into the painting and be a part of the scene myself. This would seem unusual as the painting itself is rather domestic and nowhere near traditional historical or landscape paintings you see elsewhere in the Walker. I feel that this is part of what makes his works so special. With this piece in particular the usual domestic piece appears ethereal and other worldly rather than just something you would experience in the everyday, which you more than likely would as the scene is set in what seems to be a garage again.

Dark Arc 11, Graham Crowley, 2024

Overall, this exhibition is a must see as Graham Crowley’s work is well deserved in winning the John Moores Painting Prize and it is such an experience to view as well as it being free.

More notable works:

Kate Murdoch's Studio 2, Graham Crowley, 2022

The Spare Room 2, Graham Crowley, 2024

Room 601, Graham Crowley, 2024

Display Case 1

Display Case 2

Graham Crowley: I Paint Shadows | National Museums Liverpool - more information on the exhibition here

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🧡💜➡️ @jmpaintingprize We’ve had a makeover 💅
🧡💜➡️ https://linktr.ee/johnmoorespaintingprize ⬅️ Call for Entries for #JM2023 opens in a week today ⏰ 

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[katieprattartist]

Thank you #JohnMooresPaintingPrize Repost from @jmpaintingprize • ‘My paintings progress from chaotic beginnings towards meticulous, systemic order. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Often, the work begins with leftover paint, casually applied. This approach embraces chance and bypasses conscious decisions and subjectivity. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ For Darnington, the starting point came from the fabric of the studio itself. Protrusions of expanding foam were sliced from the studio walls, scattered on to wet paint and allowed to tumble down the canvas, leaving a diminishing trail of paint and polyurethane. Imagery was then generated by programming the mark making according to organisational strategy. The process of painting interwoven lines superimposes structure on an image initially in disarray, accepting the ordered evidence of gravity’s downward pull. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I’m inspired by complex systems found in plants and landscapes as well as maths, ecosystems, communities and economies. Visiting galleries and museums and seeing the work of other artists is something that I have missed a lot over the last year. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ There has never been a time when I didn’t paint. I have always lived with the notion that I am an abstract painter, although I have at times tried to channel that impulse into other disciplines.’ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Darnington, oil and mixed media on canvas, 51x40 cm by Katie Pratt @katiepratt_artist 🧵🧶 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Studio image 📸 taken by @danhayspurple ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #JMPP2020 #art #painting #contemporarypainting https://www.instagram.com/p/CNXBkGSl2YP/?igshid=e8xy0be6t4k4

[katieprattartist]

so happy Darnington is included in this @jmpaintingprize at @walkerartgallery Virtual gallery tour https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=1YUEaKyUchQ&hl=1&back=1 Thank you to @katherine__lloyd and all the team #jmpp2020 #2020 #contemporarypainter #johnmoorespaintingprize #painting #contemporarypainting https://www.instagram.com/p/CLM_dmaFExm/?igshid=jqeild3h98qq

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