Ann Bukantas is Head of Fine Art at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.

The Jury:
Tom Benson, London-based artist
Zeng Fanzhi, Beijing-based artist
Chantal Joffe, painter based in London
Tim Marlow, Director of Exhibitions at White Cube 2003-14, now Director of Artistic Programmes at the Royal Academy of Arts. Also award winning radio and television broadcaster, and founder editor of Tate magazine.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, London-born artist of Ghanaian descent. Most recent solo exhibition was at Yale School of Art's 32 Edgewood Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut and will have a solo show at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York in autumn 2014.

"The Walker Art Gallery is one of the most important galleries in Europe and has threaded its way through my career. The John Moores is one of the most prestigious art competitions in the UK and winning the junior prize in 1961 is one of the achievements of which I am most proud. For 57 years the Prize has continued in its tradition of supporting British-based artists and I'm very pleased to represent the Prize as Patron."--Sir Peter Blake, Patron of the John Moores Painting Prize