Youngest artist wins John Moores Painting Prize

Artist Ally Fallon has been named because the youngest ever winner of the John Moores Portray Prize.The 27-year-old from Manchester gained the 2025 prize for his work, ‘If You Had been Sure, What Would You Do Then?’.A graduate of Manchester Faculty of Artwork and Apollo Portray Faculty Fallon stated it was “a really proud second”.Judges stated his work had “a misleading simplicity” and was a “courageous risk-taking portray” with “nuanced humour”.Fallon stated: “It was only some years in the past I got here right here for the primary time as a scholar, so to be standing right here with my portray on the partitions, it is a very outstanding second.”He stated paint as a fabric “permits me to precise an expertise in a really distinctive approach”.”Being primarily based in Manchester, the John Moores Portray Prize is a extremely, actually essential exhibition for Northern-based artists, because it occurs exterior of London – it is seen as an actual beacon,” he addedNamed after its founding sponsor Sir John Moores the internationally famend prize was first awarded in 1957. Previous winners embody David Hockney, Sarah Pickstone and Rose Wylie.As this 12 months’s winner, Fallon receives £25,000 and a solo exhibition on the Walker Artwork Gallery.The successful portray is on show together with 70 others chosen, from greater than 3,000 entries, for the John Moores Portray Prize 2025 exhibition on the Walker Artwork Gallery which runs from 6 September till 1 March 2026.