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Collecting Art, take a look North Lincolnshire artist Deborah Grice takes the John Moores Painting Prize 2025 Visitors’ Choice Award and its £2,025 public prize Walker Art Gallery and the John Moores Painting Prize Trust have announced Deborah Grice as the winner of the John Moores Painting Prize 2025 Visitors’ Choice Award for her painting Safehold. Based in North Lincolnshire, Grice receives £2,025 in the audience-led prize, sponsored by Rathbones, after visitors voted in their thousands at one of the UK’s most closely watched contemporary art exhibitions. In a year when the public gravitated towards paintings that reward attention, Safehold stood out for its quiet insistence. In daylight, the small canvas reads as a restrained landscape: a scene held in balance, recognisable and calm. Then the gallery’s choreography shifts. Under UV light torches provided by gallery assistants throughout the exhibition, a luminous geometric structure emerges from the same surface, turning the imag...

Collecting Art, take a look North Lincolnshire artist Deborah Grice takes the John Moores Painting Prize 2025 Visitors’ Choice Award and its £2,025 public prize Walker Art Gallery and the John Moores Painting Prize Trust have announced Deborah Grice as the winner of the John Moores Painting Prize 2025 Visitors’ Choice Award for her painting Safehold. Based in North Lincolnshire, Grice receives £2,025 in the audience-led prize, sponsored by Rathbones, after visitors voted in their thousands at one of the UK’s most closely watched contemporary art exhibitions. In a year when the public gravitated towards paintings that reward attention, Safehold stood out for its quiet insistence. In daylight, the small canvas reads as a restrained landscape: a scene held in balance, recognisable and calm. Then the gallery’s choreography shifts. Under UV light torches provided by gallery assistants throughout the exhibition, a luminous geometric structure emerges from the same surface, turning the imag...