The Liverpool Art Prize 2014 is open for nominations. The competition administered and managed by Metal at Edge Hill Station once again offers a first prize of £2,000 and People’s Choice award of £1,000, although this year the nomination process has been slightly updated.

The prize aims to acknowledge the outstanding achievements of artists in the city, to promote national awareness and discussion of contemporary art there, and to support individual artists in developing their practice.

Nomination is open to any contemporary visual artist based in or born in the Liverpool City Region (including the boroughs of Halton, Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral), and artists can nominate themselves. In a slight change of format, Metal will this year follow up each nomination by requesting further information from the artist, including a statement, CV, and a selection of five images.

In 2013, Tabitha Moses scooped both the overall prize (which included the offer of a solo exhibition at The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool) and the People’s Choice award – the first artist to achieve this in the history of the prize.

The judging panel for 2014 is: Pavel Büchler, artist, teacher and occasional writer; Laura Davis, Arts Editor at Liverpool Daily Post; Jude Kelly, OBE, founder and Chair of Metal and artistic director at the Southbank Centre; Francesco Manacorda, Artistic Director of Tate Liverpool. They will select a shortlist of four artists to present an exhibition in the city next year.

Nominations can be made at www.liverpoolartprize.com until 1 November


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