Works by 60 artists will feature in Liverpool’s John Moores Painting Prize 2018 exhibition marking 60 years of the competition.

The longlisted paintings have been selected from more than 2,700 entries by an esteemed panel of jurors including the 2017 Turner Prize winner Lubaina Himid MBE.

The free display at the Walker Art Gallery will be held from 14 July to 18 November, and forms part of this year’s Liverpool Biennial.

Artists Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Bruce McLean and Liu Xiaodong are also among the panel of jurors, alongside curator Jenni Lomax, and they’re judging paintings with artists’ names remaining anonymous throughout the process.

The newly announced longlist of paintings, which was revealed at Rathbones in London last night (24 April), will eventually be reduced to a shortlist of five finalists by the jurors.

The five will remain in the running for the top prize of £25,000, and four additional prizes of £2,500 will be awarded.

Visitors to the exhibition will also be invited to vote for their favourite entry to win the popular Visitors’ Choice Award, sponsored by Rathbones, with the winning artist receiving £2,018.

Those heading to the exhibition can expect to see paintings depicting a range of subjects, from Amazon parcel collection lockers to Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘The Last Supper’, as well as diverse painting styles.

This year’s artists have experimented with materials including aluminium, silk, cardboard and even compostable food recycling bags are utilised in place of conventional canvases.

Sandra Penketh, director of art galleries at National Museums Liverpool, says: “The 2018 exhibition will be a particularly significant one. For 60 years, the Prize has enabled the Walker to showcase and acquire work by a truly remarkable selection of contemporary artists, and this year will be no exception.

“Self taught artists, art tutors, recent graduates and established artists are all represented, together providing a fascinating insight into what’s inspiring artists in the UK right now. Visitors will no doubt recognise the names of some talented past exhibitors, as well as discovering a host of exciting new names.”

The full John Moores Painting Prize 2018 longlist includes:

Ahmed, Miraj                             Smile

Bailey, Liz                                  No Ball Games

Baker, Richard                         Cupboard 2

Bakst, Marta                              I Still See You on the Horizon

Barker, Andy                             Nowhere to Go

Bingham, James                      Shere

Blane, Frances Aviva              Mother

Bruton, Jo                                  Tassel Talk

Busuttil, Carla                           Trophy for a Dull Man

Cadwallader, Gareth               Milk

Clark, Jake                                Circus

Clarke, Pete                              doubt and distance…of lost content

Crosby, Billy                              Quilt

Davies, Lara                              Me Reading ‘Philip Guston Retrospective’ in the Studio

Down, Tom                                ‘hollow’

Elton, Liz                                   One Hundred Harvests

Fears, Alan                               My Favourite Chair

Fineman, Emma                      Questions of Silence

Franklin, Charlie                      Flatland

Gasson, Clare                          Note-taking September 2016

Gerrard, Jahan                         Aerial

Hain, Alex                                 #consumer

Hallum, Jacqui                         King and Queen of Wands

Hogarth, Delphine                   French Summer

Holloway, Leo                           Untitled

Homerston, Ian                         Untitled

Howse, Tom                              The Thunderous Silence of Your Presence

Jeong, Seungjo                        Interface L3

Johnson, Ben                           The Space Between Revisited

Johnson, Nicholas William     The Intolerable Strangeness of Vegetable Consciousness (Sunspilt II)

Kiki, John                                  Bud Girl

Krishanu, Matthew                  Mission School

Kulkarni, Nicholas                   Misdirection

Lancaster, Laura                      Untitled

Lawrence, Gary                        Kos Town Paradise Hotel Front Terrace

Lock, David                               El Muniria

Maple, Kathryn                         Alone in the Desert

Martin, Graham                        Red Road

Matsuzaki, Tomoya                  Untitled (Willow)

Matthews, Peter                       Suspended Aura

Nahaul, Cara                            Inches of Dust

Ní Mhaonaigh, Sinéad           Monument

Noga, Laurence                       Deep Blue Filtered Silver

Norris, Olivia                             Loose sugar, fade to black, bread makes you fat

O’Rourke, Joseph                    GIANTS

Osborne, Mark                          Untitled Pink

Oshilaja, Damilola                   Landscape Redux; No-nVOID/26: IDARIKA, The Land & The Sky                                                   

Panchal, Shanti                       The Divide, Beyond Reasoning

Payne, Alistair                          (D)welling

Payne, Steve                            Unnamable

Pearce, David                           Greenhouse

Rejmer-Canovas, Gracjana    Electric Landscape

Robertson, Joanne                  Raining on Shoebox Cove

Soni, Lucy                                 Untitled Bunting

Talbot, Emma                            Intense and Remote Connectivity

Stewart, Bill                               TreeAirplaneTrap

Thatcher, Clare                        Feature of Landscape

Verran, Virginia                        Black Star

Whittle, Joanna                        Rain Tent

Wills, Morgan                            Leadlight Silhouette