Liverpool-based artist, Caroline Gorick, has been selected to exhibit in the 2025 John Moores Painting Prize, which is now open to the public in the Walker Art Gallery.
From more than 3,000 entries, 70 were selected for the John Moores Painting Prize, including Gorick’s work “Evening Light”.
Named after its founding sponsor Sir John Moores, the painting prize is internationally renowned, and past winners include the likes of David Hockney, Sarah Pickstone and Rose Wylie.
The competition has awarded more than £700,000 in prize money across 32 exhibitions, showcasing more than 2,400 works of art. Sir Peter Blake, who won the Junior Prize in 1961, has been the Prize’s patron since 2011.
Caroline Gorick, based in South Liverpool, studied at the Royal Academy Schools in London before moving to the city. Working with oil paints, Gorick creates work that explores “light, stillness, and the fragile presence of everyday things”.
Prior to being selected for the painting prize, Gorick exhibited her work in a solo exhibition at Liverpool’s own Bridewell Studios, on Prescot Street.
On her selection for the 2025 prize, Gorick said:
“I painted Evening Light one night in my attic studio here in Liverpool. Although I usually work during the day, I’m often drawn to painting at night, where a certain stillness and intensity set in. There are no interruptions, just the work, and a sense of time stretching out.
“I’ve reached the second stage before, but this is the first time I’ve made it through to the exhibition itself. It’s the most prestigious painting prize in the UK, and it means so much to be included”.
The John Moores Painting Prize 2025 exhibition runs from 6 September 2025 to 1 March 2026 at Walker Art Gallery.
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