John Moores Painting Prize

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The John Moores Painting Prize is a biennial award to the best contemporary painting, submission is open to the public. The prize is named for Sir John Moores, noted philanthropist, who established the award in 1957. The winning work and short-listed pieces are exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery as part of the Liverpool Biennial festival of visual art.{{cite web|url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/ |title=National Museums Liverpool - History of the John Moores Prize |website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk}}

History

Liverpool businessman John Moores, aside from his work with the Littlewoods retail and football betting company, was a keen amateur painter. Out of frustration with the difficulty he had in finding an audience for his paintings, he financed an exhibition to which other artists in a similar situation could send their work, and compete to win prize money. The first such exhibition was held in 1957, with the winning entry becoming the property of Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery.{{Cite news |last=Hilton |first=Tim |date=24 October 1993 |title=Exhibitions / Moores the merrier, but for how long?: The winner of the John Moores prize has been announced. The only thing now in doubt is the future of the prize itself |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/exhibitions-moores-the-merrier-but-for-how-long-the-winner-of-the-john-moores-prize-has-been-announced-the-only-thing-now-in-doubt-is-the-future-of-the-prize-itself-1512906.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241214093419/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/exhibitions-moores-the-merrier-but-for-how-long-the-winner-of-the-john-moores-prize-has-been-announced-the-only-thing-now-in-doubt-is-the-future-of-the-prize-itself-1512906.html |archive-date=2024-12-14 |access-date=2025-01-12 |work=The Independent |language=en-GB}} In the prize's early years, the winning painting was not always acquired by the gallery, but this has been done consistently since 1978. Up until 1963, the prize exhibitions also included sculpture, since which time it has only allowed paintings.

Journalist Tim Hilton, who judged the prize in 1988, wrote in 1993 that the prizewinners generally "reflect the mood of the year". For example: the first prize in 1957, while kitchen sink realism was en vogue, went to Jack Smith and the junior prize the same year went to John Bratby, both artists working in that style. The junior prize was only awarded up until 1967.

Early sixties prizes for Roger Hilton and Henry Mundy reflected the new decade's tendency towards colourful painting, moving on to minimal colour fields (Michael Tyzack, 1965 winner) and pop-style winners for David Hockney and Richard Hamilton in '67 and '69 respectively. Early seventies winners reverted to a more figurative style that Hilton likened to that of the Euston Road School (Euan Uglow, 1972 winner, and Myles Murphy, 1974 winner), in contrast to the conceptual art prevalent at the time.

A string of abstract artist winners between 1976 and 1982 (John Walker, Noel Forster, Mick Moon, John Hoyland) meant that, according to Hilton, the prize had become "predictable", and the winning painting would usually be "large, amply proportioned, handsome, almost over-serious and always painted by a man". In Hilton's view, the two subsequent winners were a reaction to this seriousness: in 1985, winner Bruce McLean "cheekily imitate[d] the pomp of painterly abstraction", while 1987's winner Tim Head parodied serious art with a repetitive pattern of cows heads.

1989's winner was Lisa Milroy. She was the first woman to win the prize outright, though Mary Martin shared the 1969 prize with Richard Hamilton. National Museums Liverpool also states that 1989 was the first time the prize was judged by a majority female jury. All-male juries had not been uncommon up until 1985.{{Cite web |title=Ten moments that changed the John Moores Painting Prize |url=https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/ten-moments-changed-john-moores-painting-prize |access-date=2025-01-12 |website=National Museums Liverpool}}

2002's winner, "Super Star Fucker - Andy Warhol Text Painting" by Peter Davies, was noted by critic Adrian Searle as being "undoubtedly the first painting in 'the Moores' ever to contain the f-word".{{Cite news |last=Searle |first=Adrian |date=2002-10-03 |title=John Moores awards |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2002/oct/03/artsfeatures1 |access-date=2025-01-12 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}} That same year saw the introduction of the Visitors' Choice Prize, in which exhibition attendees are able to vote for their favourite work.{{Cite web |title=Winners of the John Moores Painting Prize Visitors' Choice Prize |url=https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/winners-of-john-moores-painting-prize-visitors-choice-prize# |access-date=2025-01-12 |website=National Museums Liverpool}}

2004's exhibition was described by Laura Gascoigne in The Spectator as being "dominated by three current trends: obsessive pattern-making, surreal 'bedroom' painting and cheerless realism".{{Cite journal |last=Gascoigne |first=Laura |date=2004-10-09 |title=Merseyside invasion |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A123677182/ITOF?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=9405594a |journal=The Spectator |volume=296 |issue=9192 |pages=61 |via=Gale}} That year's prize was won by Alexis Harding.{{Cite news |date=2004-09-21 |title=Scouse stew |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2004/sep/21/1 |access-date=2025-01-12 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

The John Moores Painting Prize China was launched in 2010 in Shanghai. Alongside the British exhibition, five winners from the Chinese competition were shown at the Walker Art Gallery. This has become a regular feature of the UK prize exhibition.{{Cite web |title=Ten moments that changed the John Moores Painting Prize |url=https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/ten-moments-changed-john-moores-painting-prize |access-date=2025-01-12 |website=National Museums Liverpool}}

Sarah Pickstone won first prize in 2012, having been a runner up in 2004.{{Cite web |title=Sarah Pickstone |url=https://shop.royalacademy.org.uk/sarah-pickstone |access-date=11 December 2024 |website=Royal Academy |language=en}} This made her the first female winner of the prize since Lisa Milroy over thirty years earlier. Pickstone's winning painting, Stevie Smith and the Willow, was based on an illustration accompanying Smith's 1957 poem "Not Waving But Drowning".{{Cite news |date=14 September 2012 |title=John Moores Painting Prize won by Sarah Pickstone |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19598723 |access-date=11 December 2024 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}} Pickstone said the painting's depiction of a girl bathing under a willow tree "might represent some kind of everywoman - an artist or mother or child", and while the poem is "very dark", she wanted to "make something more joyous out of the poem" with her painting. Judge for the prize, Fiona Banner, said of the work: "It's [...] a painting of one artist reflected through another, a meeting of literary and pictorial minds".

In 2013, artist Peter Blake, noted for his sleeve design for the Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, was named as the prize's first patron.{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Catherine |date=2013-05-03 |title=Sir Peter Blake appointed the first patron of the John Moores Painting Prize |url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/sir-peter-blake-appointed-first-3362497 |access-date=2025-01-12 |website=Liverpool Echo |language=en}}

A prize for artists in their final year of an art education program, or within two years of graduating, was introduced in 2020, the Emerging Artist Prize. The first winner of this was Kiki Xuebing Wang, who also won the Visitors' Choice prize the same year.{{Cite news |date=2021-06-25 |title=Shoe painting wins John Moores Painting Prize Visitors' Choice award |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-57608970 |access-date=2025-01-12 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}

Kathryn Maple won the 2021 prize with her work The Common. Judge Michelle Williams Gamaker commented that the painting "struck a chord during the judging [...] perhaps because it depicts the very thing we are currently unable to share" due to Covid restrictions, and that it "embodies the deeply social nature of humans".{{Cite news |last=Brown |first=Mark |last2= |first2= |date=4 March 2021 |title=Painting of a throng of humanity wins John Moores art prize |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/mar/04/kathryn-maple-painting-throng-humanity-wins-john-moores-art-prize |access-date=8 December 2024 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite news |date=4 March 2021 |title=Kathryn Maple's 'deeply social' scene wins John Moores Painting Prize |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56236995 |access-date=9 December 2024 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}} Maple subsequently presented a solo exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery. She is only the second of the prize's winners to do so, after 2019's winner Jacqui Hallum.{{Cite news |date=2 December 2022 |title=Walker Art Gallery to host art prize winner Kathryn Maple's first show |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-63834967 |access-date=8 December 2024 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}} The Common is on permanent display at the gallery. Maple told The Guardian, "You always hope your work will get into a national collection [...] so you can return to see it when you're 80 with your friends".{{Cite news |last=Wise |first=Louis |date=18 March 2021 |title='I went into a cold flurry and fell down my steps' – painter Kathryn Maple on her John Moores win |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/mar/18/painter-kathryn-maple-john-moores-win-covid-hockney |access-date=9 December 2024 |newspaper=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

Graham Crowley won first prize in 2023, having entered 10 times since 1976.{{cite web |date=14 September 2023 |title=Graham Crowley wins John Moores Painting Prize with 10th entry |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-66808963.amp |access-date=19 September 2023 |newspaper=BBC News}} He was previously shortlisted twice, and has served on the prize's judging panel. In 1993, Tim Hilton had already referred to Crowley as an "old lag" of the prize alongside Adrian Henri, calling the latter the "unofficial mayor of Liverpool" for his frequent inclusion in Moores exhibitions.

First prize winners

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!Year

!Artist

!Artwork

!Walker

Art Gallery

!Art UK

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!Ref.

1957

|Jack Smith

|Creation and Crucifixion

|[https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/creation-and-crucifixion View]

|[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/creation-and-crucifixion-97012 View]

|{{cite web |title=Jack Smith - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/previous-winners-list/jack_smith.aspx |access-date=28 November 2018 |website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk}}

1959

|Patrick Heron

|Black Painting - Red, Brown and Olive : July 1959

|Private collection

|{{Cite web |title=John Moores exhibition 2 |url=https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/walker-art-gallery/exhibition/john-moores-exhibition-2#section--the-exhibition |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250404172448/https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/walker-art-gallery/exhibition/john-moores-exhibition-2#section--the-exhibition |archive-date=4 April 2025 |access-date=2025-04-04 |website=National Museums Liverpool}}{{cite web |title=Patrick Heron - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/previous-winners-list/patrick_heron.aspx |access-date=28 November 2018 |website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk}}

1961

|Henry Mundy

|Cluster

|[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/cluster-188894 View]

|Bristol Art Gallery collection

|{{cite web |title=Henry Mundy - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/previous-winners-list/henry_mundy.aspx |access-date=28 November 2018 |website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk}}

1963

|Roger Hilton

|March 1963

|[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/march-1963-98236 View]

|{{cite web |title=Roger Hilton - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/previous-winners-list/roger_hilton.aspx |access-date=28 November 2018 |website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk}}

1965

|Michael Tyzack

|Alesso 'B'

|[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/alesso-b-98271 View]

|{{cite web |title=Alesso 'B' by Michael Tyzack (1933-2007) - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/prizewinners-exhibition/paintings/michael_tyzack.aspx |access-date=28 November 2018 |website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk}}

1967

|David Hockney

|Peter Getting Out of Nick's Pool

|[https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/peter-getting-out-of-nicks-pool View]

|[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/peter-getting-out-of-nicks-pool-98307 View]

|{{cite web |title=David Hockney - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/previous-winners-list/david_hockney.aspx |access-date=28 November 2018 |website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk}}

rowspan="2" |1969

|Richard Hamilton

|Toaster

|Private collection

|{{cite web |title=Richard Hamilton - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/previous-winners-list/richard_hamilton.aspx |access-date=28 November 2018 |website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk}}

Mary Martin

|Cross

|[https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/cross-mary-martin-1907-1969 View]

|{{cite web |title=Cross by Mary Martin (1907-1969) - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/prizewinners-exhibition/paintings/mary_martin.aspx |access-date=28 November 2018 |website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk}}

1972

|Euan Uglow

|Nude, 12 vertical positions from the eye

|[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/nude-12-vertical-positions-from-the-eye-66741 View]

|Victoria Gallery & Museum collection

|{{cite web |title=Euan Uglow - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/previous-winners-list/euan_uglow.aspx |access-date=28 November 2018 |website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk}}

1974

|Myles Murphy

|Figure with Yellow Foreground

|[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/figure-with-yellow-foreground-200973 View]

|Tate collection

|{{cite web |title=Myles Murphy - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/previous-winners-list/myles_murphy.aspx |access-date=28 November 2018 |website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk}}

1976

|John Walker

|Juggernaut with plume - for P Neruda

|{{cite web |title=John Walker - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/previous-winners-list/john_walker.aspx |access-date=28 November 2018 |website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk}}

1978

|Noel Forster

|A painting in six stages with a silk triangle

|[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/a-painting-in-six-stages-with-a-silk-triangle-98638 View]

|{{cite web |title=Noel Forster - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/previous-winners-list/noel_forster.aspx |access-date=28 November 2018 |website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk}}

1980

|Mick Moon

|Box-room

|[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/box-room-98753 View]

|{{cite web |title=Michael Moon - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/previous-winners-list/michael_moon.aspx |access-date=28 November 2018 |website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk}}

1982

|John Hoyland

|Broken Bride 13.6.82

|[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/broken-bride-13-6-82-96874 View]

|{{cite web |title=John Hoyland RA (1934 - 2011) |url=http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/academicians/painters/john-hoyland-ra,181,AR.html |website=Royalacademy.org.uk}}

1985

|Bruce McLean

|Oriental Garden Kyoto

|[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/oriental-garden-kyoto-96887 View]

|{{cite web |title=Bruce McLean - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/previous-winners-list/bruce_mclean.aspx |access-date=28 November 2018 |website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk}}

1987

|Tim Head

|Cow mutations

|[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/cow-mutations-96892 View]

|{{cite web |title=Tim Head - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/previous-winners-list/tim_head.aspx |access-date=28 November 2018 |website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk}}

1989

|Lisa Milroy

|Handles

|[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/handles-96912 View]

|{{cite web |title=Lisa Milroy - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/previous-winners-list/lisa_milroy.aspx |access-date=28 November 2018 |website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk}}

1991

|Andrzej Jackowski

|The Beekeeper's son

|[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-beekeepers-son-96918 View]

|{{cite web |title=Andrzej Jackowski - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/previous-winners-list/andrzej_jackowski.aspx |access-date=28 November 2018 |website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk}}

1993

|Peter Doig

|Blotter

|[https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/blotter View]

|[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/blotter-97275 View]

|{{cite web |title=Peter Doig - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/previous-winners-list/peter_doig.aspx |access-date=28 November 2018 |website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk}}

1995

|David Leapman

|Double-Tongued Knowability

|[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/double-tongued-knowability-97284 View]

|{{cite web |title=David Leapman - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/previous-winners-list/david_leapman.aspx |access-date=28 November 2018 |website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk}}

1997

|Dan Hays

|Harmony in Green

|[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/harmony-in-green-97290 View]

|{{cite web |title=Harmony in Green by Dan Hays (born 1966) - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/prizewinners-exhibition/paintings/dan_hays.aspx |access-date=28 November 2018 |website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk}}

1999

|Michael Raedecker

|Mirage

|[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/mirage-97295 View]

|{{cite web |title=Michael Raedecker - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/previous-winners-list/michael_raedecker.aspx |access-date=28 November 2018 |website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk}}

2002

|Peter Davies

|Super Star Fucker - Andy Warhol Text Painting

|[https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/super-star-fucker-andy-warhol-text-painting View]

|[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/super-star-fucker-andy-warhol-text-painting-97301 View]

|{{cite web |title=Peter Davies - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/previous-winners-list/peter_davies.aspx |access-date=28 November 2018 |website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk}}

2004

|Alexis Harding

|Slump/Fear (Orange/Black) 2004

|[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/slumpfear-orangeblack-2004-97302 View]

|{{cite web |title='Slump/Fear (orange/black)', Alexis Harding - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/recent-exhibitions/23/prizewinners/alexis_harding.aspx |access-date=28 November 2018 |website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk}}

2006

|Martin Greenland

|Before Vermeer's Clouds

|[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/before-vermeers-clouds-97309 View]

|{{cite web |title='Before Vermeer's Clouds', Martin Greenland - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/recent-exhibitions/24/prizewinners/martin_greenland.aspx |access-date=28 November 2018 |website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk}}{{Cite web |title=John Moores 24 first prizewinner announced |url=https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/john-moores-24-first-prizewinner-announced |access-date=2021-08-03 |website=National Museums Liverpool |language=en}}

2008

|Peter McDonald

|Fontana

|[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/fontana-98774 View]

|{{cite web |title='Fontana', Peter McDonald - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/recent-exhibitions/25/prizewinners/peter_mcdonald.aspx |access-date=28 November 2018 |website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk}}

2010

|Keith Coventry

|Spectrum Jesus

|{{cite web |title='Spectrum Jesus', Keith Coventry - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/recent-exhibitions/jm2010/prizewinners/coventry.aspx |access-date=28 November 2018 |website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk}}

2012

|Sarah Pickstone

|Stevie Smith and the Willow

|{{cite web |date=2012-09-15 |title=BBC News - John Moores Painting Prize won by Sarah Pickstone |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19598723 |access-date=2012-10-17 |website=Bbc.co.uk}}

2014

|Rose Wylie

|PV Windows and Floorboards

|[https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/pv-windows-and-floorboards View]

|[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/pv-windows-and-floorboards-309415 View]

|{{cite news |date=19 September 2014 |title=Rose Wylie wins John Moores Painting Prize aged 80 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29281142 |website=BBC.co.uk}}

2016

|Michael Simpson

|Squint (19)

|{{cite web |last=Brown |first=Mark |date=7 July 2016 |title=Michael Simpson wins 2016 John Moores painting prize |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jul/07/michael-simpson-2016-john-moores-painting-prize-leper-squint-19 |work=theguardian.com}}

2018

|Jacqui Hallum

|King and Queen of Wands

|{{cite news |last=Kennedy |first=Maev |date=12 July 2018 |title=Jacqui Hallum wins John Moores painting prize |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jul/12/jacqui-hallum-wins-john-moores-painting-prize |access-date=12 July 2018 |newspaper=The Guardian}}

2021

|Kathryn Maple

|The Common

|{{cite web |date=8 March 2021 |title=Winner of £25,000 John Moores Painting Prize announced |url=https://artreview.com/winner-of-john-moores-painting-prize-announced/ |access-date=21 September 2021 |newspaper=Art Review}}

2023

|Graham Crowley

|Light Industry

2025

|TBA