The Liverpool Art Prize is contemporary art

Contemporary art

Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...

 competition open to professional artist

Artist

An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

s based in the Liverpool City Region area of the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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Background

The inaugural competition took place in 2008.
The competition was inspired by the Turner Prize

Turner Prize

The Turner Prize, named after the painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of 50. Awarding the prize is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain. Since its beginnings in 1984 it has become the United Kingdom's most publicised...

 held in Liverpool in 2007 at the Tate Gallery

Tate Gallery

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The Liverpool Art Prize is organised by www.artinliverpool.com

Winners and Shortlisted artists

• 2008 - Exhibition 29 February 2008 to 7 May 2008
  • Imogen Stidworthy - Overall Winner
  • The Singh Twins - People's choice Winner
  • Emma Rodgers
  • Mary Fitzpatrick
  • Jayne Lawless
    Jayne Lawless
    Jayne Lawless is an English installation artist from Liverpool.A 2004 Fine Art graduate from University Campus Suffolk in Ipswich she has exhibited work in London, Liverpool, Suffolk and Poland often as part of an artist residency....
    
    

• 2009 - Exhibition 13 March 2009 to 4 May 2009 - Winners announced on 22 April 2009
  • AL and AL - Overall Winners
  • Terry Duffy
  • McCoy Wynne
  • Nicki McCubbing
  • Richard Meaghan
  • Elizabeth Willow - People's Choice Winner

• 2010 - Exhibition 4 June 2010 to 10 July 2010 - Winner announced on 30 June 2010
  • David Jacques - Overall Winner
  • James Quin - People's Choice Winner
  • Paul Rooney
  • Emily Speed
  • Gina Czarnecki

• 2011 - Exhibition 6 May 2011 to 11 June 2011 - Winner announced on 1 June 2011
  • Brendon Lyons
  • Bernadette O'Toole
  • Richard Proffitt
  • Markus Soukup

External links

• Liverpool Art Prize Website

http://www.AlandAl.co.ukLiverpool Art Prize winners 2009