VISITORS to the Best Art Vinyl exhibitions in Barnsley, Bologna, Budapest and Munich have been voting for their favourite record cover artwork of the last year.

And now the results are in...

The winner has been revealed as Run The Jewels’ album cover Run The Jewels 3.

In second place was Father John Misty’s Pure Comedy, featuring illustrations by famed New Yorker magazine artist Ed Steed, and third was The Vessels image from the album The Great Distraction.

The winning album cover design was by Timothy Saccenti, who has worked in music design, specifically photography for notable artists Flying Lotus, Lana Del Ray and A Tribe Called Quest.

The 50 nominated records are currently on display at The Gallery at the Civic alongside a retrospective look at the first 12 years of the Best Art Vinyl Award. The exhibition is open until January 20.

This year’s album cover art has seen ambitious concepts and elaborate artwork being reduced down to the ultimate 12ins canvas.

Now in its 13th year, the Best Art Vinyl Award is a contemporary art prize which celebrates record cover design by compiling the best in art, photography and graphic design in modern music culture each year.

This year’s winning best vinyl art joins an impressive Art Vinyl archive of celebrated visual artists.

Andrew Heeps, Best Art Vinyl founder, said: “This year the Best Art Vinyl Award has been about reaching an even wider audience to showcase these great pieces of contemporary art, as our ambitious exhibition programme has achieved. In 2018, the vinyl artwork is extending beyond record shops and into art galleries, giving credit these amazing artists and creatives deserve.”