Tabitha Jussa was last night announced as the winner of this year’s Liverpool Art Prize at a special awards ceremony at Edge Hill Station, collecting the main prize which includes £2,000 and an invitation to create a solo exhibition at the Bluecoat in 2015. Work from Tabitha and the other two finalists Brigitte Jurack and Jason Thompson, have been on display since the 9th May and the exhibition runs until Saturday 21st June.

Managed by Metal, the Art Prize is a competition of contemporary art inspired by the Turner Prize coming to Liverpool during the Capital of Culture year in 2008, and celebrates and nurtures the creative talent of artists based or born in the Liverpool region.