Sir Christopher Le Brun becomes honorary fellow of Liverpool John Moores University

3 April 2025

Sir Christopher Le Brun has been awarded an honorary fellow of Liverpool John Moores University. He was conferred with the university’s highest honour at a graduation ceremony at Liverpool Cathedral, close to two of his commissioned works of art – the Prodigal Son and the Good Samaritan – which are on display in the choir stalls as part of the Cathedral’s public art collection.

Introduced by Professor Rachel McLean, Director of Liverpool Screen School and the Liverpool School of Art and Design, as “a true friend of the city and of the school”, Sir Christopher made his name creating figurative and abstract work in painting, sculpture and print.

He was knighted in 2021 for his services to the arts and served as President of the Royal Academy of Arts in London for eight years. Since 1990, has been a trustee of major British institutions at Tate, National Gallery, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Portrait Gallery and the Royal Drawing School.

He was most notably a double prize winner at the John Moores Liverpool exhibitions of 1978 and 1980 and subsequently returned as a jury member for the John Moores Painting Prize some years later. In 2019, he came to LJMU to deliver a Roscoe Lecture on the subject of ‘The artist as public figure: how artists contribute to decision-making in the arts’.

Find out more via Liverpool John Moores University.

Image: Portrait of Sir Christopher Le Brun, © Christopher Le Brun, Courtesy Lisson Gallery, Photographed by Tom Dunkley.