Crisps Youth Art Prize Winners
The winners of the 2023 Crisps Youth Art Prize were announced on Thursday 14 September.
Grand Champion - Katie-Lee Jansink
Jr Grand Champion - Reagan Talbot
Kindy
First - Alexander Blaxland
Second - Nate Mann
Third - Spencer Gasparin
Highly Commended - Amelia Torrisi
Prep
First - Jay Sullivan
Second - Alex Wilmott
Third - Martin Brunckhorst
Highly Commended - Lucy Bishop
Year 1
First - Max Sheppard-Holley
Second - Levi Gardiner
Third - Grace Thomas
Highly Commended - Xander Wilmot
Highly Commended - Rylan Williams
Year 2
First - Isabella Patti
Second - Uriah Hobson
Third - Amelia Arthur
Highly Commended - Olivia Maggiolo
Year 3
First - Sienna Cornwall
Second - Alhue Welsh
Third - Chira Edge
Highly Commended - Cooper Foster
Year 4
First - Cheyenne Foster
Second - Nicholas Rossington
Third - Kaia McCall
Highly Commended - Jonathan Cornwall
Year 5
First - Harlow Rain Schulze
Second - Savana Thomas
Third - Mickayla Thiess
Highly Commended - Quin Pfeiffer
Year 6
First - Dane Metcalfe
Second - Bay Heard
Third - Chloe Temple
Highly Commended - Mia Dullahide
Year 7
First - Maggie O'Dea
Second - Georgia Petrie
Third - Heidi Richards
Highly Commended - Indiana Dorley
Year 8
First - Liam Green
Second - Ned Torrens
Third - Abigail McErvale
Highly Commended - Alfie Hill
Year 9
First - Daniel Malcom
Second - Emma Hickson
Third - Chloe Cox
Highly Commended - Ashley Bell
Year 10
First - Nicole Donnelly
Second - Claire Noyella
Third - Jan Vanputen
Highly Commended - Cherry Seaman
Ceramics award - Archie George
Speech from Mary Findlay, Gallery Director
CRISPS Coaches have been providing transport in the Granite Belt region since 1915. Over one hundred years. Everyone in Stanthorpe knows that this is how you get to Brisbane, how you go on trips, school camps and more. But for over thirty years CRISPS Coaches has sponsored the CRISPS Art Prize. Every year hundreds of students are inspired to enter the Crisps Art Prize. It is commendable that this local business has continued to support this fantastic youth art prize over such a long period of time.
So many make this amazing exhibition happen. Dale Crisp and his family and their continued support, the many volunteers who patiently prepare and hang the exhibition, Jenni and the RSL band for their music this evening, Bob Townshend our town crier who continues to give pomp and ceremony with his unique calls to so many of our events, teachers, staff. Parents and the amazing artists.
The theme for the CRISPS Art Prize 2023 is Caring for Nature: Biodiversity and Endangered Species of the Granite Belt.
The Granite Belt region has a unique geography and biodiversity. The high altitude and cooler climate make this region unique in its flora and fauna: The region has a high degree of habitat diversity due to its elevation, topographic variation, outcropping rock, and a pronounced east-west rainfall gradient. We have lots of unique flora and fauna. CRISPS Art Prize 2023 has been an opportunity to celebrate the endangered and rare species of the Granite Belt the animals, birds, plants, reptiles who live in this very special place.
This year the CRISPS Art Prize was augmented by a unit of work that many of the schools in the district are using and the Caring for Nature Expo which most of the primary schools in the district attended. This has certainly been a stimulus for the students and reflected in the unique and vibrant exhibition.
This year there were 936 entrants from kindy to senior students. A huge effort from students, parents, staff, and teachers. What is most exciting are the colours, ideas and how every piece of art is different: An inspiring, amazing, and uplifting exhibition. The feedback from the volunteers who hung these 936 pieces is that is one of the best CRISP art prizes that they have ever seen - a big call.
For the last five years there has been a special award from the Burton Family. Therese Burton who unfortunately is no longer with us was an integral part of the Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery. Her family have very kindly donated that Therese Burton award for the Grand Prize Junior and Senior winners.
The exhibition is on until the 15 October. Well worth a look to see what our young people are thinking and how it is reflected in their art.