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.

Call from Town Crier, Bob Townshend



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