Nominations for the 2012 Liverpool Art Prize open on Monday 5 September 2011 and close on Friday 25 November 2011.
(See the NOMINATIONS)
The Liverpool Art Prize is a competition of contemporary art open to professional artists based in or born in the Liverpool City Region of the United Kingdom.
2012 will be the 5th Liverpool Art Prize. The exhibition of 4 shortlisted artists will take place at Metal at Edge Hill Station.
Please read the guidelines before making your nominations:
- You can nominate yourself.
- You can nominate up to three artists.
- The artists needs to be born in OR currently based in Liverpool City Region (this includes the boroughs of Liverpool, Wirral, St Helens, Knowsley, Halton and Sefton)
- The artist needs to have exhibited or realised a project or piece of work in the previous year (June 2010- Present) and there needs to be evidence of this online in order to complete your nomination.
- Artists who have been shortlisted for the prize in the previous two years are not legible for the prize.
- Artists will need to be available to exhibit as part of the Liverpool Art Prize 2012 (26th April – 9th June).
- Nominated artists need to have made a demonstrable contribution or impact on the Liverpool art scene and to have developed a unique and individual art practice.
- Nominations are accepted from all artistic disciplines.
| Artist | Link | Nominee |
| Adrian Jeans | http://www.thecraftofart.co.uk/ | anon |
| Alan Dunn | http://www.alandunn67.co.uk/ | Roger Cliffe-Thompson, Rita Griffiths, James Quin |
| Anna Ketskemety | http://www.annaketskemety.com/index.htm | Roisin Hyland |
| Arthur Roberts | http://www.looopart.com/ | Barbara Jones, Jacqueline Roberts, Jane Hughes |
| Birgit Deubner | http://www.birgitdeubner.com/ | Sally Medlyn |
| Brigitte Jurack | http://www.brigittejurack.de/ | David Jacques, Bernadette O’Toole, Sara-Jayne Parsons, Dorothea Muecke-Herzberg + 3 anon |
| Cherie Grist | http://www.cheriegrist.com/ | Eliza Brittles |
| Chiz Turnross | anon | |
| Claire Weetman | http://www.claireweetman.co.uk/ | Claire Weetman |
| Craig Atkinson | http://www.craigatkinson.co.uk/ | Kevin Hunt |
| David and Eirin Hallangen-Lake | http://www.facebook.com/hallangenarts | Kee Garden, Claes Borg, Jeff Greenbank |
| David Gough | http://www.davidgoughart.com/ | Emma Gough |
| David Sinclair | David Sinclair | |
| Deborah Jayne Bennett | Deborah Moore | |
| Derek Murray & Curtis Watt | www.inspiralfilms.co.uk/ | Derek Murray |
| E.Scott Jones | Helen Parslew | |
| Helen Louise Stead | http://www.thecreativediarist.com/ | Helen Louise Stead |
| Horse (Gary McGarvey) | http://www.youresomehorse.com/ http://www.screenadelica.com/ | anon |
| James Tomo | http://quangowangism.com/index.htm | Priya Sharma, Tony Knox |
| Jason Thompson | http://www.iamjasonthompson.com/ | Arthur Roberts |
| Jemma Egan | http://www.jemmaegan.com/ | Hannah Jones |
| John Davies | http://www.johndavies.uk.com/ | Sally Medlyn |
| John Hogan | http://www.saatchionline.com/johnhogan1969 | John Hogan |
| John O’Shea | http://www.fromconcentrate.net/ | anon |
| Jonathan Tooze | Ruth Dillon | |
| Julie Dodd | http://www.juliedodd.co.uk/ | Linda Muat, Carol Ramsay, Alison Bailey Smith, Shaun Dodd |
| Julieann O’Malley | http://vimeo.com/user3545057 | anon |
| Kevin Hunt | http://www.kevin-hunt.co.uk/ | anon, Andrew Bracey, Anna Francis, Glen Stoker, Michael Aitken |
| Leo Fitzmaurice | http://www.leofitzmaurice.com/ | anon, Kevin Hunt |
| Linny Venables | http://www.linnyvenables.co.uk/ | Simon Poulter |
| Madeline Hall | http://www.madelinehall.co.uk/ | Simon Poulter |
| Marvin Blair | http://www.youtube.com/Bopperblair | Marvin Blair, Julie Robertson, several others |
| Mike Carney | http://mikesstudio.co.uk/drawings/latest-drawings/ | anon |
| Mike Carney & Jon Barraclough (collaboration) | http://drawing-paper.tumblr.com/ | Emily Speed |
| Nicki McCubbing | http://www.nickimccubbing.com/ | anon, Kevin Hunt |
| Pete Carr | http://www.rezzd.com/ http://petecarr.net/ | Sam Bytheway |
| Pete Clarke | http://www.peteclarke.org.uk/ | Tony Knox |
| Robyn Woolston | http://www.robynwoolston.com | Claire Weetman, Carol Ramsay, Becs Andrews, Joe Stathers-Tracey, anon |
| Ruth Dillon | http://www.blurb.com/books/2215939 | Tony Knox |
| Sam Venables | http://www.sam-venables.com/ | anon |
| Sean Dagnall | http://ichbingen.wordpress.com/ | anon |
| Stephen King | http://www.stephenkingphotography.co.uk/ | Patrick Fox |
| STOK | http://www.myspace.com/stok_tct/photos | Mak Trades |
| Tabitha Jussa | http://www.tabithajussa.com/ | Josie Jenkins |
| Tom Palin | http://www.tompalin.co.uk/ | Paul Fred Kelly |
| Tom Ross | http://dualitypainter.tumblr.com/ | Tom Ross |
| Tony Knox | http://www.tonyknox.org.uk/ | Emma Jackson, Nadia Cheung, Simon Curran, Tony Lavender |
| Wendy Williams | http://www.wendycwilliams.co.uk/ | Jet Pascua |