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2017: Telling Tales

The MUSA Young Artist Award is an annual art competition for schools in Fife. Our Young Artists this year explored different ways of telling stories and representing words with their artworks.

Winning entries were displayed at the Byre Theatre.

Telling Tales

This year 1130 pupils took part in workshops with staff and a further 316 participated in an online session using GLOW.  A total of 791 budding young artists sent in their entries for the 32 prizes on offer.

Entries were judged by Beano cartoonist Jim Glenn, Jean Kemp, a retired teacher and former volunteer on the Young Artist Award, and Claire Robinson, MUSA's Collections and Exhibitions Curator.  Entries were judged on the basis of:

• Originality and creativity
• Confident handling of materials
• Boldness and impact
• An obvious link to collections at MUSA

The judges were impressed by the standard of the artworks and awarded Special Merits to 14 additional pupils.

2017 Winners

Category A: Nurseries

1st prize Yuvaan Vinod Age 4, Rainbow Nursery

2nd prize Sophie Niven Age 4, St Andrews Nursery

3rd prize Sophie Dowie Age 4, Rainbow Nursery

Special merit

Sophie Jones,
Age 4, St Monans Nursery

Molly Glonek
Age 4, St Andrews Nursery

Charlotte McKend,
Age 4, St Monans Nursery

 

Category B: Primary 1 to Primary 3

1st prize Beatrice Elliot P2, Greyfriars R.C. Primary School

2nd prize Veronika Gusachenko P3, Greyfriars R.C. Primary School

3rd prize Alexander Elliot P2, Greyfriars R.C. Primary School

Special merit

Ruaridh Stuart
P3, Lawhead Primary School

Hung Chan
P3, Greyfriars R.C. Primary School

Eleanor Small
P3, Greyfriars R.C. Primary School

Category C: Primary 4 to Primary 5

1st prize Tara McGhie P5, Wormit Primary School

2nd prize Rosie Donnelly P4, Limekilns Primary School

3rd prize Sofia Benssassi, P4, Canongate Primary School

Special merit

Jasmine Reid
P4, Wormit Primary School

Harry Dingwall
P4, Donibristle Primary School

 

Category D: Primary 6 to Primary 7

1st prize Christopher Barker P7, Greyfriars R.C. Primary School

2nd prize Dale Restar P6, Dunnikier Primary School

3rd prize Grace Kinnear P7, Dunnikier Primary School

Special merit

Morgan Morris
P6/7, Coaltown of Weymss Primary School

Aidan Lindsay
P7, Greyfriars R.C. Primary School

Louisa Preston
P7, Dunnikier Primary School

 

Category E: S1 to S3

1st prize Aleighsha Chalmers S3, Glenwood High School

2nd prize Jack McLeod S1, Inverkeithing High School

3rd prize Becky Simpson S3, Glenwood High School

Special merit

Wiktoria Rogoz
S3, Glenwood High School

Megan Ayling
S2, Glenwood High School

Latifah Johnson
S2, St Andrews R.C. High School

 

Category F: Additional Support Schools/Units

1st prize Kenzie Goddard Hillside School

2nd prize Mark Drummond Hillside School

3rd prize Gary Gilmour Hillside School

 

 

Congratulations to all the winning pupils and schools!

We hope you enjoyed taking part and will come back to MUSA and the Gateway Galleries with your families.