Liverpool Art Prize

The People's Choice Award for the 2009 Liverpool Art Prize has been increased from £500 to £1000.

We are very grateful indeed to the sponsors of this award, Arthur Diamond Design who, not only provide this cash prize, but also donate their time and services to print the flyers, invitations, exhibition signs and banners.

Indeed we are blessed with a wonderful team of sponsors, with Duncan Sheard Glass donating the main £2000 prize, Alexander MacGregor designing and producing the catalogue and other printed material and Novas providing such a great exhibition space.

The short list for the 2009 Liverpool Art Prize is as follows:

AL and AL

Terry Duffy

McCoy Wynne

Nicki McCubbing

Richard Meaghan

Elizabeth Willow

More details about the artists here

Many thanks to all the nominees and nominators for giving the panel of judges such a hard task in choosing this list from over 80 nominations.
The exhibition is scheduled to take place in the Novas CUC gallery from March 13 to May 4 2009.

The final list of over 80 nominations for the 2009 Liverpool Art Prize. In alphabetical order of surname with website if available. The judges are judging - short list to be announced later this month...

The winner of the Liverpool Art Prize 2008, Imogen Stidworthy, is one of only 4 artists to be shortlisted for the Northern Art Prize.
Here's a report from the Liverpool Daily Post..

Nominations are now closed for the 2009 Liverpool Art Prize.
We have received over 80 excellent nominations. The full list is below. More details to follow soon.

Nominations are now CLOSED for the Liverpool Art Prize 2009.
Further details to follow soon.

The Liverpool Art Prize is a competition of contemporary art open to professional artists based in or born in the Liverpool City Region¹ of the United Kingdom.

Closing date for nominations is 15 November 2008

The Exhibition Venue

The 2009 Exhibition will take place in the Aghafar Gallery on the 3rd floor at Novas CUC