Warhol text painting scoops top John Moores prize
Dawn Capper
catalogue including works by Peter Davies, Lisa Milroy, Ian Davenport
and Martin Maloney.
JOHN MOORES 22 TOP PRIZE
Peter Davies lands £25,000
The top prize in the prestigious John Moores 22 exhibition of
contemporary painting at the Walker, Liverpool, has been won by Peter
Davies with his Super Star Fucker – Andy Warhol Text Painting.
The painting is a dazzling network of differently coloured stars, each
bearing a slogan associated with Andy Warhol.
Peter, who scoops the main prize of £25,000, says of the painting:
“For some years I have been making text paintings alongside
abstract paintings. Both types feed off and inform one another. The
text paintings offer a playful and humorous take on my attempts to
understand art history and contemporary art.”
Born in Edinburgh in 1970, Peter exhibited in the Sensation exhibition
at the Royal Academy in 1997 and has since shown regularly in London
and also in New York, Los Angeles, Brazil and Scandinavia. His winning
painting now joins the Walker’s permanent collection.
John Moores 22 exhibition of contemporary painting is open from
Saturday 14 September until 8 December 2002. Admission is free.
The other four prizewinners – each receiving £2,500 – are:
The Ambassador by BANK (Simon Bedwell and Milly Thompson working as an
artists’ collective); Hoary Footman 1997 –2001 by Alan
Gouk, a Scottish-based artist who was a John Moores prizewinner as
long ago as 1967; Bloomsbury Square WC1 1989 by Martin Maloney, who
has held one-man exhibitions in London, Milan and Cologne; Sepal by
Liverpool-born Paul Morrison. Earlier this year he was included in the
Jerwood Painting Prize and he opens an installation at the Royal
Academy, London this week. These paintings will be among 38 works
being shown in John Moores 22 as part of the Liverpool Biennial.
The three judges artists Fiona Rae and Jenny Saville and
writer/artist/TV presenter Matthew Collings selected the exhibition
and winners from over 5,000 entries. Matthew says: “Our ideas
for prizes were pretty unanimous. We admired the qualities of colour
and placement and visual wit in Peter Davies’ painting.”
For the first time the Walker is producing a comprehensive on-line
catalogue illustrating all works in the exhibition at
www.thewalker.org.uk/johnmoores22
Notes for Editors: The Walker, William Brown Street, Liverpool Open
Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 12-5pm Information desk 0151 478 4199 Biennial
Website www.biennial.org.uk
Richard
On 13 Sep 2002 04:26:27 -0700, dawn....@nmgm.org (Dawn Capper)
wrote:
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>The top prize in the prestigious John Moores 22 exhibition of
>contemporary painting at the Walker, Liverpool, has been won by Peter
>Davies with his Super Star Fucker – Andy Warhol Text Painting.
I found a web page with examples of his "text paintings" and other
junk. It's all worthless crap. I'm totally unimpressed by this
"prestigious" prize. He's just lucky that someone decided that his
crap was better than someone else's crap.
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Mani Deli
wrote:
>I found a web page with examples of his "text paintings" and other
>junk. It's all worthless crap. I'm totally unimpressed by this
>"prestigious" prize. He's just lucky that someone decided that his
>crap was better than someone else's crap.
It's more likely that he knows the right people. Modern Art success is
all matter of being well connected. The artwork is of little interest.
...no skill no art!
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Dawn Capper
another. If you look back over the prizewinners from the JM prize
there's people like David Hockney in there, but you never know whether
or not an artist is going to stand the test of time at the time (if
you get my drift).