Welcome to Gallery One (6 Years & Under) of the 2020 Act-Belong-Commit Young Artist Awards. If you're looking for the 7 to 12 years category, it can be found in Gallery Two.
Below you will find individually created works, art projects from schools and pieces made from our Creative @ Home projects by young regional artists between March and July 2020. As part of this year's awards there is $1000 in prizes - a $500 Judge's Award and a $250 People's Choice Award for each category. Voting is now closed and winners announced. Please click here to see this years awardees.
We invite you to go through the below exhibition, take note of the entry number for your choice and vote using the form at the bottom of this page.
We hope you enjoy the voice and creations of some of regional WA's creative talent.
Pippa Fish, Age 6
Description: A Picasso inspired portrait.
Entry number 85
Jaedon Brooks-Staley, Age 6
Description: A Picasso inspired portrait.
Entry number 86
Ash Bodinner, Age 6
The painting is of a bushfire -it represents the devastating bushfires of the Black Summer.
Entry number 71
Allie Wynne, Age 6
Description: Implied texture using paper collage. Inspired by author and illustrator ‘Eric Carle’.
Entry number 87
Ella Rose Browne, Age 6
Description: it's about my cat "Buckets" and me sitting on a sunsetting hill on our farm
Entry number 83
Kelton Bass, Age 6
Description: A Picasso inspired portrait.
Entry number 84
Ellie King, Age 5
A mixed media artwork inspired by Hokusai’s ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa’
Entry number 77
Asha Smith, Age 5
A mixed media artwork inspired by Hokusai’s ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa’.
Entry number 78
Willow Bestry, Age: 5, Perenjori
A mixed media artwork inspired by Hokusai’s ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa’.
Entry number 79
Michael Smyth, Age 6
Description: I had a picture in my mind and I coloured it in. I made the purple by using pink and blue.
Entry number 92
Oliver King, Age 6
A Pete Cromer-inspired paper collage of a Red-breasted Robin.
Entry number 80
Riley Smith, Age 6
A Pete Cromer-inspired paper collage
Entry number 74
Zach Bradford, Age 6
A Pete Cromer-inspired paper collage.
Entry number 81
Michael Smyth, Age 6
I created this fun artwork after listening to Whitney and Britney Chicken Divas during National Simultaneous Storytime.
Entry number 88
Magnus Bigwood, Age 4
Oil (pastel) on canvas
Band practice in memory of his two best friends that he can’t see during isolation.
Entry number 91
Melaluka, Age 4
Description: Dad was hugging everybody. We was all going to the park. Clara was hiding behind piper so she doesn't get hugged! She didn't feel like hugging.
Entry number 90
Amelia Cheekes, Age 5
A sunset painting created with a horizon line, wavy & straight lines and warm & cool colours.
Entry number 76
Lincoln Deadman, Age 6
I created this artwork of autumn leaves by tracing a stencil, then colouring and rubbing with crayon.
Entry number 89
Ben Rose, Age 5
A self-portrait with a dye blown hairstyle.
Entry number 73
Ella Sauvarin, Age 5
A self-portrait with a dye blown hairstyle.
Entry number 72
Edith Egan, Age 5
A self-portrait with a dye blown hairstyle.
Entry number 75
Bayley Cannon, Age 6
An observational drawing of a shoe.
Entry number 82
Click here to explore the 7-12 Years exhibition in Gallery Two
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