And the winners are:

On Wednesday 2 October our Oexmann Art Competition judges came to the Museum to make some very difficult decisions.  After much deliberation, we are pleased to announce this year’s Oexmann Art Award Winners!

Congratulations to all who have won prizes or have been highly commended for their artwork.  The judges have also chosen nearly 60 other adult entries to be featured in the exhibition, alongside all of the art entered by young people.

The exhibition opens to the public on Saturday 19 October and runs until Saturday 23 November.  The prize giving takes place on Sunday 20 October - all those who entered will receive an invitation and complimentary ticket.

Thank you to everyone who entered, it’s wonderful to see how much Wiltshire artists have to offer.

PRIZEWINNERS: ADULTS

FIRST PRIZE: Nick Andrew - Bull Mill Cottage Back Garden 100924

SECOND PRIZE: Linn O’Carroll - Cape Cornwall – view to Sennen

DRAWING PRIZE:  Rob Hames - Flint Study

PURCHASE PRIZE:  Helen O’Sullivan - Etchilhampton Hill

HIGHLY COMMENDED:  Joy Jefferys - Wiltshire Wanderings

PRIZEWINNERS: Children and Young Persons, age 12 to 18

FIRST PRIZE: Nell Gates - Self Portrait - Girl with the New Earring

SECOND PRIZE: Paige Vernon – Kingfisher

HIGHLY COMMENDED:

Issy Chammings - Fruit

Kaspar B - Untitled

Priya - Untitled

Vasylina Dashchenico - Empty Glass

Vasylina Dashchenico - Emotionism

Elodie Rowan Neale - Hoopoe

Emma Young - Pencil Study

ALL ENTRIES IN THE 12-18 CATEGORY WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE EXHIBITION.

PRIZEWINNERS: Children and Young Persons, age 6 to 11

FIRST PRIZE: Arya Ustundeniz - Forest

SECOND PRIZE: Freya Cornish - Sunflowers

HIGHLY COMMENDED:

Emelia - Untitled

Harry Blake - Untitled

Ceci Boyd - Untitled

Seth Clarke - Untitled

Archie Cookson - Untitled

Flora Couch - Untitled

Holly Edwards - Untitled

Leona Evans - Rowing through the storm

Serian Evans - Peacock Pheasant

Coco Hampton - Untitled

Kit Hawley - Untitled

Harry Kennedy - Salisbury Plain

Casey Northcott - Snowy Mountain

Iris Pagan-Skelley - Jungle

Phoebe Palmer - Winter Hare

Ella Rose Pangrazzi - Billie Eilish

Ralph Pettitt – Untitled

Lydia Parks - Untitled

Mathilda Pettitt - Frida

Lucy Pinch - Untitled

George Postlethwaite - Jungle

Izzy Sanders - Pets

Adriano Spano - Sea Creatures

Grace Upward - Untitled

Stanislav Vedernikov - Untitled

ALL ENTRIES IN THE 6-11 CATEGORY WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE EXHIBITION.

3D PRIZES – JOINT FIRST

Polly K  - Oxeye Nicotiana Anemone

Emma H - Untitled

ADULT ENTRIES IN THE EXHIBITION

DUE TO LIMITED SPACE WE ARE UNABLE TO INCLUDE ALL ADULT ENTRIES IN THE EXHIBITION.  THE FOLLOWING WERE SELECTED BY THE JUDGES FOR DISPLAY:

Dean Adams - Broad Bodied Chaser (Dragonfly)

Dean Adams - 5 White Doves

Nick Andrew - Bull Mill Walled Garden 090924

Yvonne Auld - Looking Towards Pulteney Bridge

Ian Bertram - Sarsen Stones 2/5

Simon Bishop - Shoot Facebook out of Your Soul

Jill Goatman - Devil's Den

Patrick Hallissey - Heron Waiting for a Bus

Patrick Hallissey - You Are So Beautiful

Sue Hallissey - The Long and Winding Road

John Harris - Midsummer Walk

Nicola Hawkins - Field View from Oliver's Castle, Roundway - July 2024

Marie Hillcoat - Complementary

Sandi Hills - Country Pumpkin

Caroline Horsley - Tanglewood

Penelope Ives - Lego Garden

Penelope Ives - Persephone's Dinner

Joy Jefferys - Avebury

Richard Johnson – Morning On The Canal

Clare Jones - Rhoshilli Beach Dream

Andrew Lambrith - Music of the Stones I

Dru Marland - Wiltshire Map

Karen McGreevy - Hazy Woodland

Hollie Molloy – A Flash of Blue

Jennifer Monds - In Black & White

Diana Neale - Here Comes the Sun

Diana Neale - Smokescreen

Linn O’Carroll - Wild Carrott

Helen O’Sullivan - The Orchard

Alan Overton - Bristol Bus-Stop

Alan Overton - The Bridge & North Parade, Frome

Cathy Pearce - Autumn Hedgerow, Tinhead Hill, Salisbury Plain

Jean Perrett - Railway Street Hanoi

Annette Phillips - Cat Portrait

Kim Pragnell - What Lies Beneath the Blue and Briney

Stephen Sawyer - English Oak

David Scully - Ghost of an Ancestor at Avebury

Shauna Seccombe - Clouds over the Ridgeway

Julie Smith - Head In The Clouds

Julie Smith - Unwrapped Snails I, Wiltshire Molluscs Collection

Joanne Spencer - Wiltshire White Horse

Pascale Stacey - Hiroshima Museum of Art, Naka-Ku, Japan

Pascale Stacey - Winter Sunset, Trusloe, Avebury

Andrew Taylor - Avebury Beech Trees

Andrew Taylor - Icy Field, Lydeway

Carole Anne Tonge - Grey Wethers, Ridgeway

Carole Anne Tonge - Ridgeway Sunflowers

Susan Underwood - Hay Bales

Jennifer Webb - Dreams of a Homeless Hindu

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