Shortlist Announced for Liverpool Art Prize 2013

Local artists Kevin Hunt, Tabitha Moses, Juliann O’Malley and Laurence Payot have been revealed as the shortlist for the 2013 Liverpool Art Prize as it returns for its 6th successive year. All four will exhibit their work in Liverpool from Friday 26 April – Sat 8 June (PV Thursday 25 April) in the hope of winning the prestigious prize, which was established in Liverpool’s Capital of Culture year 2008.

The Liverpool Art Prize was founded by Art In Liverpool’s Ian and Minako Jackson and is now managed by Metal. The shortlist was whittled down from the 52 entries received by the organisers, by a highly qualified panel of judges, which comprises Sally Tallant (Director of Liverpool Biennial), Tim Etchells (multi-disciplinary artist), Laura Davis (Arts Editor, Liverpool Daily Post) and Robyn Woolston (Artist and winner of Liverpool Art Prize 2012). The shortlisted artists will need to continue to impress the panel with the work they exhibit at the Liverpool Art Prize exhibition in order to win.

The winner will be revealed at an awards ceremony on Wednesday 29 May at which the People’s Choice Award winner will also be revealed. The overall winner of the Liverpool Art Prize will receive £2000 and will also be offered a show at The Walker Art Gallery at some point during the ensuing 12 month period. The People’s Choice Award winner, determined by a public vote from visitors to the exhibition, will receive £1000.

About the shortlisted artists:

Julieann O’Malley is an interdisciplinary artist based in Liverpool. Her practice is fundamentally live durational performance installations, video work, sound and photography.

Kevin Hunt is a sculptor based at Liverpool’s The Royal Standard concurrently working on a number of curatorial projects alongside his practice as an artist. He constructs sculpture utilising the found and redundant, reconfiguring these things to expose an inherent beauty, playfully tampering with the poetics of found form.

Laurence Payot infiltrates our everyday to create short-circuits and challenge our pre-conceived perceptions. From interventions and sculptures in the public realm, to larger collective performances, she generously invites the viewers to become active participants, blurring the line between the work and its audience. Laurence has been based at The Royal Standard for the last 8 years, and is originally from Metz, France.

Tabitha Moses lives in Liverpool and is based at Bridewell Studios. Her work concerns the tangible expression of human experience. Her subjects include murder, bodies, skin and Blackpool.

Jenny Porter, Project Manager at Metal said:“We’re really excited by this year’s shortlist which includes a diverse range of practices including, for the first time, artists who use performance in their work.The Art Prize will continue to engage and impress local audiences with some of the most cutting-edge work made in the city. Liverpool continues to keep building on the talent found here and we can’t wait to show off the work of these artists in the exhibition later this year!”

The Liverpool Art Prize is a competition of contemporary art, which was inspired by the Turner Prize coming to Liverpool during the Capital of Culture year in 2008. It is open to all professional artists based or born in Liverpool City Region, including the surrounding boroughs of Liverpool, Wirral, St Helens, Knowsley, Halton and Sefton.

Previous Liverpool Art Prize winners are Robyn Woolston, Imogen Stidworthy, AL and AL, David Jacques and Marcus Soukup who exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery as part of his prize in 2012.

The previous People’s Choice winners are James Quin, Brendan Lyons, The Singh Twins and Elizabeth Willow, who have also gone on to achieve great respect within the industry.

Robyn Woolston, last year’s winner, will present her exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’, from Saturday 23rd March.

More information can also be found at www.liverpoolartprize.com.
See also www.metalculture.com and liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/

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