Ally Fallon joins Hales
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Hales is delighted to announce representation of British painter Ally Fallon. Fallon (b.1998 London, UK) lives and works in Manchester, UK. He received an MA in Painting from Manchester School of Art in 2023 and was part of Louise Giovanelli’s Apollo Painting School programme in 2024. Fallon was named the winner of the 2025 John Moores Painting Prize, becoming the youngest artist to win the prestigious award. He will have a solo exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery in 2026 and will be featured in ‘New Contemporaries’ at South London Gallery and MIMA in 2026.
Fallon’s painting practice deftly combines structure and spontaneity, drawing on personal experience and a sustained engagement with interior spaces. Working within the legacy of British abstraction, his paintings extend a lineage concerned with materiality, spatial tension, and the act of painting itself, while introducing a contemporary sensitivity rooted in lived environments and psychological space.
Images:
1: Portrait of Ally Fallon. Photo by Timon Benson
2: Ally Fallon, Poppies, 2026. Photo by Michael Pollard
3: Ally Fallon, Buckthorn, 2026. Photo by Michael Pollard
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Artwork Spotlight | Ally Fallon, ‘Mist’, 2025
On view in ‘A Room for Keepsakes’ at Hales London through January 2026.
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‘A Room for Keepsakes’ brings together a cross-generational group of UK based artists exploring interior scenes imbued with psychological meaning.
Fallon’s compositions combine structure and spontaneity rooted in personal experience, where rooms with tiled floors are a space for gestural mark making. Tangible scenes with a deep sense of perspective are intersected with painterly abstraction and geometry creating an uncanny presence.
Fallon has been named the winner of the 2025 John Moore’s Painting Prize, becoming the youngest artist to win the prestigious award. He will have a solo exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery in 2026. In 2024, he was part of Louise Giovanelli’s Apollo Painting School programme and in 2025 the subsequent group show at Alice Amati. In 2025 he had a duo show with Jack Ginno, Here or There or Elsewhere at Heaven 11, Manchester. He was the 2023 Artist in Residence at Joya: AiR, in southeastern Spain. He has exhibited in a number of group shows across the UK, including HOME, Manchester; The FG Gallery, Cheshire; and Boomer Gallery, London.
Image: Ally Fallon, ‘Mist’, 2025. Photo by Damian Griffiths
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Artwork Spotlight | Ally Fallon, ‘The Edge of Every Moment’, 2025
On view in ‘A Room for Keepsakes’ at Hales London through January 2026.
🔗Link in bio to learn more.
‘A Room for Keepsakes’ brings together a cross-generational group of UK based artists exploring interior scenes imbued with psychological meaning.
Fallon’s compositions combine structure and spontaneity rooted in personal experience, where rooms with tiled floors are a space for gestural mark making. Tangible scenes with a deep sense of perspective are intersected with painterly abstraction and geometry creating an uncanny presence.
Fallon has been named the winner of the 2025 John Moore’s Painting Prize, becoming the youngest artist to win the prestigious award. He will have a solo exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery in 2026. In 2024, he was part of Louise Giovanelli’s Apollo Painting School programme and in 2025 the subsequent group show at Alice Amati. In 2025 he had a duo show with Jack Ginno, Here or There or Elsewhere at Heaven 11, Manchester. He was the 2023 Artist in Residence at Joya: AiR, in southeastern Spain. He has exhibited in a number of group shows across the UK, including HOME, Manchester; The FG Gallery, Cheshire; and Boomer Gallery, London.
Image: Ally Fallon, ‘The Edge of Every Moment’, 2025. Photo by Damian Griffiths
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OA Studio holder Ally Fallon has just finished a period of working in our gallery as part of the new initiative at OA. The programme gives studio holders temporary ownership of the large space. It’s also offering a rich glimpse into their practices as they move from the privacy of their studios into this communal setting.
Ally has been using the gallery to prepare a new body of work following his recent win of the 2025 John Moores Painting Prize. His paintings present sensitively rendered rooms that beckon us to step inside. Their accordance with formal perspective teases the promise of a seamless crossing from our world into theirs, but their material actuality holds us at arm’s length, demanding a more complex psychological inhabiting of their geometry.
Rather than our bodies, the rooms in Ally’s works are occupied by painting’s familiar protagonists—gesture, mark, colour, form, etc.—and yet, he lifts them from their canonised roles in painting’s history and bestows upon them the status of characters by granting them physical attributes borrowed from reality: they can cast shadows, yield to gravity, and even carry the implication that they might age with time—as, unlike their viewer, they are destined to remain in these rooms long after we have inevitably walked away.
“My paintings are made from elements of my life but the life within the painting comes from the interaction of paint itself. I do not believe in the binaries of abstraction and representation, it is rare to find a painting that doesn’t contain both. Life itself is very abstract and painting offers a route to expressing the abstract side of our experience. I believe that following this instinct allows us to make something that is uniquely ours.”
Words and photographs ~ @mikey_c_thomas
Quote ~ @ally_fallon
Congratulations to Ally Fallon (@ally_fallon ) for winning the 2025 John Moores Painting Prize with his work “If You Were Certain, What Would You Do Then?’
At just 27, Ally is the youngest ever recipient of this prestigious award.
Only a year ago, Ally completed the Apollo Painting School programme as part of its very first cohort. We’re proud to have supported him in his exploration of painting and grateful to have worked alongside him on his artistic journey.
Catch Ally in person at his artist talk this Saturday at 2pm at the Walker Art Gallery, and stay tuned for his upcoming solo exhibition there.
Wishing Ally a brilliant career ahead✨
Ph. Timon Benson / @timonbenson
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Exciting news 📢‼️ Ally Fallon has just been announced as the First prize winner for #JMPP2025 with his painting, 'If You Were Certain, What Would You Do Then?'. Massive congratulations @ally_fallon 👏👏
Over 3,000 artists entered the John Moores Painting Prize 2025. From those impressive entries, the #JMPP2025 jury anonymously picked 71 captivating paintings to be exhibited at @walkerartgallery and the First Prize winner, who, at just 27 years old, has made history as the youngest winner of this prestigious award 🎨🏆
Delighted to announce that my work will be included in this year’s John Moores Painting Prize and has been shortlisted for the first prize!
Thank you to the judges and JMPP team!
The exhibition opens on 6th September until 1st March at The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
