2023 A4Art Award Winners Announced
It was a kaleidoscope of colour and creativity at the Creative Arts Nest, 2023 A4Art Prize Awards Night on Friday night, where after months of touring exhibitions and behind-the-scenes action, the A4Art Winners were announced.
A full house of 400 which included 160 St Agnes’ Education student and staff finalists, along with proud families, judges, sponsors and community members packed the Newman Senior Technical College venue, catered by Newman students and staff and entertained by musicians from St Joseph’s Regional College.
With 450 entries, more than double last year’s, the 2023 A4Art Competition is the biggest art competition in the region. The brief was for Artists to create an artwork by using just ONE A4 size piece of paper. Draw, paint, scribble, fold, sculpt, cut, mould, shred, or write on the paper – use it in any way the artist envisions! The A4Art competition was run across all six St Agnes’ Parish Schools and there were entry categories from Kindergarten students all the way up to Year 12 and Staff.
There was an overwhelming community response to the A4Art Prize this year, with some incredible statistics to share including:
- 5,394 voting tokens were placed in jars where students and staff voted for the People’s Choice Award while the 160 finalists’ artworks toured all six of our Parish Schools in our A4Art Pop-Up Exhibition.
- 3,008 votes were cast at the 2023 Port Macquarie Artwalk, where an estimated 4,000 people visited our A4ArtRoom.
- Online we’ve had 5,100 votes cast with friends and families voting from over the world for the Community Choice Award, with over 13,000 new visitors to our website.
Congratulations and thank you to all of our artists. Once again our St Agnes’ Education and Creative Arts Nest community is bursting with pride.
View the our gallery of photos from the night by the amazing, Cal Howard from Lens Head. You can also download the images from the Lens Head website.
This year’s competition was sponsored by…
Sunset Framing & Gallery, The Seed Creative, Wauchope Creative Hub, Affinity Helicopters, Stoney Park, Innervision Surf & Skate, Alice In Paperland, Drawn To Art, Arthouse Industries, Eckersley’s Art & Craft, Agostina, Cassegrain, Wildnets Adventure Park, St Agnes Education as well as the late addition of the 8 x Belle Property, Luminosity Youth Summit Scholarships.
Below is a list of the winners broken into categories:
People’s Choice (School Voting) – WINNER – Tayte Schultz – Reflections
People’s Choice (ArtWalk) – WINNER – Matilda Shields – The Countdown To The End
Community Choice (Online Voting) – WINNER- Doodle Time” by Yzekiel Nieva
Kindergarten
HIGHLY COMMENDED – Dylan Nicholson – Cheetah in the Jungle
HIGHLY COMMENDED – Paityn Wrigley – All My Favourite Things
WINNER for Kindergarten – Lucas Bolton-Hall – The Koala Tree
Year 1
HIGHLY COMMENDED – Lucas Andrew – Rainbow Mirrors
HIGHLY COMMENDED – Olivia Currall – Rainbow
WINNER for Year 1 – Jack Spry – Jaws
Year 2
HIGHLY COMMENDED – Noah Lynch – Tassled Wobbegong in the Shallows
HIGHLY COMMENDED – Elena-rose Khan – To Infinity and Beyond!
WINNER for Year 2 – Zane Mitchell – Food in my Dreams
Year 3
HIGHLY COMMENDED – Eli Brown – Beautiful Hastings River
HIGHLY COMMENDED – Matilda Spry – Rainbow Fish
WINNER for Year 3 – Amelie Abi-Saab – Mountain View
Year 4
HIGHLY COMMENDED Lucy Davis – Race
HIGHLY COMMENDED Amelia Opitz – Fun Sunglasses
WINNER for Year 4 Ahliyah Bennett – Cute cat laying on pancakes
Year 5
HIGHLY COMMENDED Lilly Goulding – Thank you Firefighters
HIGHLY COMMENDED Cloie Paug – Jug of Memories, Fruits That I Love
WINNER for Year 5 Henry Ayres – Heavy Metal Chick
Year 6
HIGHLY COMMENDED Joslyn Wake – Believe
HIGHLY COMMENDED Stella Clark – Under the surface
WINNER for Year 6 Maya Marshall – No, you get in the bag
Year 7
HIGHLY COMMENDED Abbey Delforce – Sunrise Wave
HIGHLY COMMENDED Lucy Ford – Under the Sea
WINNER for Year 7 – Bronte Gawith – My Happy Place
Year 8
HIGHLY COMMENDED Angelina Mifsud-Scriven – The powers of emotions
HIGHLY COMMENDED Summer Tilston – Through An Artists Eyes
WINNER for Year 8 – Paige Goldie – Building a Snowman
Year 9
HIGHLY COMMENDED Rhianna Petrou – Red-eyed Tree Frog
HIGHLY COMMENDED Megan Goldie – The Amazing Spider-Man
WINNER for Year 9- Chelsea Arnold Flowing Thoughts
Year 10
HIGHLY COMMENDED Matilda Shields – The Countdown To The End
HIGHLY COMMENDED Milly McGrath – Joy
WINNER for Year 10 – Bella Hopper – Man in a Suit!
Year 11
HIGHLY COMMENDED Tayte Schultz – Reflections
HIGHLY COMMENDED Mia Burg – HOPE
WINNER for Year 11- Emily Galvin – The Technological World
Year 12
HIGHLY COMMENDED Emma Marchant – Jacob Elordi
HIGHLY COMMENDED Mikhayla Kenny – Street Rat Terry
WINNER for Year 12 – Franjayla Tyson – Brain and Heart
St Agnes’ Education STAFF
HIGHLY COMMENDED – Staff – Naomi Currall – Reef
HIGHLY COMMENDED – Staff – Mel Allwood – Little Pardalotes (par-di-lotes)
WINNER – Staff – Brooke Ryan – Un rêve quotidien (oon-rev-quo-tid-ian)
PACKING ROOM PRIZE
3rd HIGHLY COMMENDED – Packing Room Prize
Harmony Weller “Birds and Butterflies”
2nd HIGHLY COMMENDED – Packing Room Prize
Braxton Beresford “My Mind”
1st HIGHLY COMMENDED – Packing Room Prize
Ruth Clarke “Paper Wars”
WINNER – Packing Room Prize
Liam Ayres “Psycho Chicken”
Luminosity Scholarships
Abbie Brennan – “I’ll Follow You Anywhere You Go”
Chelsea Arnold – “Flowing Thoughts”
Olivia Blake – “Stroke”
Bella Hopper – “Man in a Suit”
Milly McGrath – “Joy”
Mia Burg – “Hope”
Tayte Shultz – “Reflections”
Lorena Dionigi – “Inspiration”
