THE WINNING artworks in this year’s Open 33 exhibition at Leicester’s flagship museum have been announced.
Taking the top prize at Open 33 – which showcases artistic talent from across the East Midlands – was a painting by Nottinghamshire-based artist Susan Isaac.
Her oil painting, entitled Lines of Power II, was awarded the £1,000 Open 33 Attenborough Prize.
The selecting judges praised the painting’s dynamic movement and the combination of energy and precision demonstrated by the artist.
Winners of the young people and children’s categories were Evian Baum (age 17) for A Breather, acrylic on canvas; Juliette Welisane Mayega (age 14) for Schizophrenia Was Their Name, mixed media drawing; and Samuel Eldredge-Allen (age 7) for As Flat as a Pancake, digital drawing.
The City of Leicester Museums Trust selected Claire Jackson’s Cat in My Garden, oil on canvas; Study in Blue, acrylic on canvas by Wilf Birch (17); Woman, Life, Freedom, acrylic and ink by Shaghayegh Behroozi (13); The Water of Life, paint on MDF board by Akemi Uchiha (6).
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