The Royal Fine Art Commission Trust, in partnership with Bath Spa University, are proud to present the ‘See What I See’ competition winners and highly commended entrants. Congratulations to all!
Animal Centred City – “The road outside is emptied of all cars and pavements, it feels much wider and you can run with no cars coming. There is now grass and a Bamboo thicket and a stream running down the street where the goldfish live. Most of the animals live in their underground houses beneath the earth; this is where the entrance to the house used to be. The birds live above in the trees which grow in the cemetery behind the street. The animals that live here are badgers, foxes, panthers, pandas and wolves as well as Owls, Hawks and Eagles. There are bees nests for honey bees.The people all still live here, but now they live in floating houses above the road. They are big pods held up by balloons. The pods have large windows with colourful drawings like rainbows and teddy bears. They make nice reflections. Everyone visits each other using the walkways from balloon to balloon and there is a slide to the ground. The animals and the residents all live happily together. The balloons are docked on pods. They can be used to move around and visit other places in the country.”
2nd Prize: ‘The city of Paris while staying at home’ by Kasia Bubnicka-Gyde (age 6)
“I like Eiffel Tower and I really would like to see it. Maybe when we can travel again I could go to Paris with my parents. It would be great to see it through our window with lots of trees and colourful houses below. The reason I want to go to Paris is because I want to go up the Eiffel Tower. And also I think that we should have trees on our street to make it look nicer.”
3rd Prize: ‘See what I can see…I can see the fun world around me’ by Louis Gill (age 7)
“I can see …my street with people in their gardens. I can see chalk at the top of the road, and lots of houses. Look again …and I can see my street with a rainbow reflecting on the houses and turning them multi-coloured. The people are on the road playing and holding hands. I can see blue sky and everyone is happy. I like my street because there are lots of children. I would like to see…. a ginormous boat on a very long river. I would like to eat fish and chips on a boat.“
“I have redesigned the space at Redcliffe Wharf to make it into a place where people can come back together and have fun. I have made it out of paper-mache and cardboard.”
2nd Prize: ‘MyWorld’ by sophia Joyce (age 10)
“MyWorld represents a big colourful painting. This painting describes me. I love bright colours and rainbows and rainbows are the sign of hope and a better normal. I loved drawing this …. to reflect I would like a better environment, not a new normal but a better normal….. wind turbines everywhere, everything eco friendly and our earth’s elements recycled to the max. Renewables in colour ….. making use of space protecting our environment lets colour shine through. If its good enough for the canals of Venice its good enough for my house and the house next door!”
3rd Prize: ‘Streets for kids’ by Emma Clements (age 11)
“My drawing is about how I feel about nature and this is what I think my street should be like all of the time ; quiet, no cars and everyone having fun. Lockdown has been amazing for the environment including beetles because nobody has been able to buy weedkiller and products to treat your garden, so nature has been thriving lately. I wish we lived in a world that the environment, kids and kindness came before cars.”
Winning Entries: 13-16 years
1st prize: ‘Urban COre’ by Joella Wilkins (Age 16)
“The Urban Core is a community based hub which has an innovative up and down mechanism. The design fits to transform a currently under-utilised and tight space in my local area. It is a design concept that has far reaching uses in other communities. Storage within the hub would facilitate different uses thought the year e.g. ice cream/milkshakes in the summer and coffee/ hot chocolate in the winter. When not in use the core fits into the ground and can be secured to reduce vandalism and it also frees the space up to be used for other purposes.”
“The Hub is my school environment re-imagined. It’s an inclusive space that would give every student opportunities. The hub has lots of classrooms that suit all different career paths and skill sets. I chose to focus the hub around subjects that are often overlooked in school and more creative subjects that deserve a great learning environment. The hub also includes a unique feature called the “sensory pod” that helps children with additional support needs and gives them equal opportunities. I have missed my friends during lockdown so this helps me plan how we can be together at school.”
“I designed my school to have all the essentials that a ballet school needs, for example a physiotherapy area because many dancers find benefit in sports massage for their injuries, reduce pain and discomfort linked with muscular overuse, a fifteen metre swimming pool, the reasoning behind the swimming pool is swimming helps with stamina, the water resistance also helps with muscle tone and lastly the release of lactic acid in the body, a library/school which hopefully may turn into online school for every student so that we all stay isolated and safe, Ballet studios for all our ballet training and lastly a gym/rhythmic gymnastics hall, the gym is used for cardiovascular training and rhythmic is used for coordination. I created my school to be very open, the reason for this is that because we live in such a beautiful environment in Taynuilt surround by nature, I feel that it should be seen by everyone. I am very grateful for being able to live in such an incredible environment isolated from all the trouble going on around the world and in the cities and this helps everyone to stay focused on why they are there and not concentrate on the things happening on the outside. My school will have three floors, each floor will have only the essential rooms and no extra things or unneeded rooms, with no purpose. And as I mentioned in the beginning, it will have glass windows which will have blinds that can be pulled down. During the very bright times of the day when the sun is beaming down, you won’t get blinded by it. “
Commended entries are available on the next page >>