ART COMPETITION FOR YOUNG
ARTISTS 2020
The Art Competition for
Young Artists organised by Gibraltar Cultural Services is being held at the
John Mackintosh Hall. The competitive exhibition is part of the annual Youth
Arts Jamboree.
The Minister for
Culture, The Hon. Dr John Cortes MP, officially opened the Exhibition and
presented the awards on Tuesday 25th February 2020. Twenty Five
artists have submitted a total of sixty artworks. Local artist, Sebastian
Rodriguez carried out the judging.
The Prize winners are:
1st The
Ministry of Culture Prize - £1000
No.52 Zulaika Vallance “How People With Dwarfism
Were Represented In The 1600s”
2nd The
Aquagib Prize -
£500
No. 41 Sara Rumford “Into The Water 1”
The Kishin Alwani
Foundation Award School Years 9 – 11 -
£500
No.30 David
Llamas “Shells”
The Kishin Alwani
Foundation Award School Years 12 – 13 -
£500
No.32 Grace
Macniven “The Process”
The Arts Society
Sculpture Award -
£500
No.43 Macarena Sánchez
Yagüe “Dresspreso,
What Else”
The following received
‘Highly Commended’ Certificates:
No. 39 Nicholas Perera “Fish”
No. 42 Sara Rumford “Into The Water 2”
No. 16 Jonathan Gingell “Water’s Motion”
No. 29 Conor Lavagna “Guidance”
No. 57 Lizhe Zhang “Summer
In Austria”
No. 56 Lizhe
Zhang “Number 27”
No. 45 Ethan Segovia “The
Artist”
No. 53 Zulaika Vallance “Teenage Heartbreak (in the eyes of our elders)”
No. 37 Nicholas
Perera “Antonio”
No.
35 Tyrone Moreno “Hers”
The
exhibition will be open to the general public from Wednesday 26th
February to Saturday 7th March 2020, weekdays from 9am to 9.30pm and
Saturdays from 10am to 2pm.