Youth Open Art Exhibition 2025
WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Congratulations to all of the entrants on the high quality of entries received for this years Youth Art Exhibition. A wide range of themes and mediums were entered, making it difficult for the judges to decide on the winners!
Thank you to the Lord Lieutenant of Rutland and the High Sheriff of Rutland for their support.
The exhibition is on display at Rutland County Museum until Saturday 22nd February 2025
Overall winner: Lucy Bellamy “Digital future”
Year groups 7-9 winner: George Smith “Hariwake”
Year groups 10-11 winner: “Travel my identity”
Year groups 12-13 winner: Polly Greening “Disco”
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Stanley Donaldson “The race”
Archie Clithero “My best friend”
Esme Olivia Tyers “Tears of life”
Sophie Stuart-Jones “Perception”
Leona Olieczock “Peterborough Cathedral”
Lucie Spencer “A pedestrian’s perspective”
Eliza Greaves “Girl by the water”
Lucy Harris “Jewelled car”
Youth Open Art Exhibition 2024
Arts for Rutland Awards
Overall winner: Lucy Parkinson “The party shirt”
Age 11-13 winner: George Smith “Harriet the hare”
Age 14-16 winner: Oliver Lang “Dad’s glasses”
Age 17-18 winner: “Edie Parker “Lens of adolescence”
Highly Commended:
Chiyo Markee “The space between”
Anna Tring “Horse”
Harrison Lang “Urban anarchy”
Krystin Spearey “Different views”
Naomi Kirk “Peaceful”
Chelsea Wang “The rose and the butterfly”
Amy Vane-Tempest Stewart “Drapery”
The Art Society of Oakham Awards:
Age 11-13: Stanley Donaldson “Street art”
Age 14-16: Amy Vane-Tempest Stewart “Uppingham”
Age 17-18: Eric Lai “Nights in Hong Kong”
The Rutland Arts Society Awards:
Age 11-13: Archie Clithero “Hare of the moment”
Age 14-16: Polly Greening “Time flies by”
Age 17-18: Penny Symonds “Seasons at Rutland Water”
2023 winning entries
Arts for Rutland Awards
Overall winner: Emily Pamihova “The human condition”
Age 11-13 winner: Stanley Donaldson “Through a sphere”
Age 14-16 winner: Freya Morton “Through the archway”
Age 17-18 winner: “Madeline Shepher “Marianne”
Highly Commended:
Evie Stafford “Ram skull”
Eleanor Garfoot “Fish lamp”
Karenza Hughes “Feast of culture”
Sebastian Alabaster “Forgiven, 2022”
Helen Ritchie-Smith “Summer at the river”
Daisy Martin “Judged”
Edward Cooper “Companion”
The Art Society of Oakham Awards
Age 11-13: Jessica Warke “A farmyard full of colour”
Age 14-16: Elise Billingham “Young girl”
Age 17-18: Annie Luck “Sounds of silence”
The Art Society of Rutland Awards:
Age 11-13: Melody Kirby “Door Mouse”
Age 14-16: Sophie Stuart-Jones “Elizabeth”
Age 17-18: Lily Watkins “Third Birthday”
2022 Prize Winners
Arts for Rutland awards
Overall winner – Amelia Callun – Plastic pollution (including poem)
11-13 Sophia Harper – Too much information
14-16 Anna Smith – Silent truth
17-18 Will Browning – David Attenborough
Highly Commended:
Eleanor Queen – The girl sat at the bottom of the ocean
Alice Kane – Forest jaguar
Nicole Byham – A glimmer of hope
Julie Kwok – Portrait of Vivian
Penny Symonds – Global whispers
Sophie Stroud – Koi fish
Holly Bateman – Koi fish
Tiffany Huang – Celestial Garden
Elva Eu – Jeta
Zak Draper – Rutland landscape
The Art Society of Oakham
11-13 Alexander Heath – the current world about the way the world is now
14-16 Olivia Scott – Nature can never be forgiven, just dismissed
17-18 Poppy Taylor-Border – Global warming
Rutland Art Society
11-13 Ailee Parsons – World whispers
14-16 Oliver Seymour – Consequences
17-18 Freddie Lagesse – Gauntlet
2021 Prize Winners
Title: Alice in 2021. Description: Opening the door to hope.
Medium: Mixed media – watercolours, coloured pencil and ink
– Leila Bowden.
Title: Spaced out.
Description: Large square acrylic canvas painting.
Medium: Acrylic paints.
– Maria Alam.
Title: Serenity of nature.
Description: Acrylic painting.
Medium: Acrylic on canvas.
Title: A door into the everyday.
Description: A drawing of sister while putting on makeup in the reflection of a mirror. The artwork concentrates on looking at the mundane tasks that are carried out on a day-to-day basis but often overlooked. This offers a small look into what many people don’t see.
Media: Pencil.
– Luke Adams.
Title: Beyond.
Description: it is an ink artwork of San Francisco surrounded in a man made environment.
Media: ink & water colour.
– Shannon Sage
Title: Open the door to the animal kingdom.
Description: The at work represents an opening to a variety of animal species, each with individual personalities representing natures variety of life to show the reality of it through imagery.
tiger: strength
human: power and intelligence
peacock: beauty and elegance
parrot: noise
snake: death
Media – Colour pencils.
Title: Open the door to new life.
Description: A double portrait made with oils on board, depicting a newborn child with his father during the summer lock-down.
Media: Oil paints
– Jessica Purse.
Title: Looking through the lens.
Description: Mixed media portraiture piece inspired by surrealism
Alter ego and perception of how others perceive you- own perception.
Media: inks, pen, pencil, acrylic paint.
– Catherine Uff
Title: Opening the door to my future.
Description: Self portrait reflecting my aspirations for the future.
Media: Pencil.
2020 Prize Winners
Arts for Rutland
- Overall Winner – Grandma by Lucy Adams
- 11 to 13 years Bright Idea by Mara Bradbury-Harrold
- 14 to 16 years Portrait of Mr Jarvis by Freddie Lagesse
- 17 to 18 years Tata by Lola Celebicanin
The Arts Society Rutland
- 11 to 13 years Awakening by Yasmin Watt
- 14 to 16 years Self Portrait by Archie Burrows
- 17 to 18 years Zaza 1 by Hannah Thomson
Oakham Arts Society
- 11 to 13 years Light Bulb Moment by Prasadi Thapa
- 14 to 16 years Candlelight by Lily Wilson
- 17 to 18 years Craig and Hebe by Fleur Parsons
Highly Commended
- Human Mind by Arabella Green
- High Contrast by Aidan Butler
- Stag by Katie Weston
- Horizon by Sam Wensley
- A Moment in Time by Alex Timson
- Reflection by Evie Joyce
2019 Prize Winners
Overall Winner – Milly Wood “Fenella”
Arts for Rutland
- 11-13 Katie King – mixed media
- 14-16 Freya James “Portrature with Contour Lines”
- 17-18 Harry Bonar-Law “A History of Surveilance”
Rutland Arts Soiety
- 11-13 Mara Bradbury-Harrold “Deers in Your Eyes”
- 14-16 Shannon Bourne “Open Your Eyes”
- 17-18 Ted Brown “Departing Soul”
Oakham Arts Society
- 11-13 Jasmine Townsend “Wonder”
- 14-16 Jasmine Sentance “Abstraction”
- 17-18 Anna Horwich – untitled
Highly Commended
- Mara Bradbury-Harrold “Peacock Blue”
- Polina Lobodina “Georgie & Cav”
- Archie Burrows “Behind the Uniform”
- Tobias Coulson “Tom Hanks”
- Lily Watkins “When you Don’t Use Your Eyes You Must Trust Your Ears”
- Daisy Troth “Reactions”
- Georgia Forgrave “Control Tower in the Buffer Zone Cyprus”
- Oliver Appleton “Dream Creature”
