2023 A4Art Prize Finalists Announced!
2023 A4Art Prize has seen a creativity explosion across our six St Agnes’ Parish Schools with more than 450 entrants (over 10% of the student population), almost double last year’s entrants.
The standard of artworks in this year’s competition is truly remarkable. We have seen a range of genres including painting, drawing, origami, textiles, digital art as well as 3D artworks supported by thoughtful artist statements. It is incredible to see such a broad spectrum of creativity from a simple A4 piece of paper.
125 finalists were selected by expert judges across 14 categories including Kindergarten to Year 12, as well as the St Agnes’ Education Staff category.
A further 35 artworks were chosen as Packing Room Finalists. The ‘Packing Room Prize’ is a new category created for those artworks that may not have been chosen as a finalist by our Judges, or did not meet the criteria/terms and conditions of the A4Art competition, but have been chosen by Creative Arts Nest Team as standout artwork.
All finalist artworks will be featured in the A4Art Pop Up Exhibition, touring each of the St Agnes’ Parish Schools in the coming weeks, where visitors can vote for the People’s Choice Award. They will also appear at ArtWalk 2023, June 9th in the Creative Arts Nest Tent on PMQ Town Green.
Over 400 artworks have been shortlisted and are available to view online and are now open for voting for the Community Choice Award at www.artsnest.com.au.
Category and award winners will be announced at the Finalist Event on the 22nd June, with all winners to be displayed at the Wauchope Creative Hub Art Gallery after the Finalist Event!
The Creative Arts Nest would like to thank our sponsors:
- St Agnes’ Education
- Sunset Framing & Gallery
- The Seed Creative Workshops
- Wauchope Creative Hub
- Affinity Helicopters
- Stoney Park
- Innervision Surf & Skate
- Alice in Paperland
- Drawn to Art
- Arthouse Industries
- Eckersley’s Art & Craft
- Agostina’s Fine Foods & Catering
- Cassegrain
- Wildnets Adventure Parks
