Alexis Harding

[2] He was selected by a jury that included Jarvis Cocker, Gavin Turk and former John Moores prizewinner Callum Innes.

[5] Harding was himself a member of the jury for the John Moores Prize in 2023 alongside The White Pube, Chila Kumari Burman, Marlene Smith and Yu Hong.

[7] Slump/Fear (orange/black) was described by Laura Gascoigne in The Spectator as "a messy outburst against the pattern-making impulse, spoiling a surface of perfect checks with an ugly tear".

[4] Writing for The Times, Catherine Leen described Harding's signature style as resulting from a technique of pouring household gloss paint onto wet oil pigment through a perforated guttering.

The paper's authors conclude that while the materials used may appear similar, mixing them without proper consideration of their different properties leads to a fragility of the artwork, causing conservation issues and the instability of the paint in the long term.