The Innovation Award competition aims to highlight students’ final year projects with the most commercial potential. These awards have four categories (Design, Fine Art, Graphics and Textiles) and the judging panels for each category include industry leaders who pick their ‘ones to watch’.
Fine Art
- One to watch - Colette Griffin: Tinaye Makuyana - In Pursuit of the White Rabbit
- One to watch - Bruce Asbestos: Livvy Azzopardi - Slip Casting Excavated Materials
- Overall winner: Erin Sparks - Looking back to move forward
Textiles
- One to watch – Priestmangoode: Emily Ingram - Powered By Propaganda
- One to watch - Robyn Dark: Amelia Vance - Unnecessary Necessity
- One to watch – Dulux: Peace Rodliff - Home is Not a Place
- Overall winner: Peace Rodliff - Home is Not a Place
Graphics
- One to watch – Janssen/Johnson & Johnson: Nitya Thawani - Thali - Content Aggregation for the Curious South Asian
- One to watch - Sweet Cherry Publishing: Rebecca Ayres - Sniff Test Campaign
- One to watch – Signet Branding: Ruth Shogelola - Sickle Cell awareness
- Overall winner: Ruth Shogelola - Sickle Cell awareness
Design
- One to Watch - Cambridge Consultants: Robert McKinna - Pheonix
- One to Watch - Native Design: Jessica Gardner – Pip
- One to watch – Proctor & Gamble: Ellen Callaghan - Rae
- Overall winner: Ellen Callaghan - Rae
The Creative Arts awards were presented at a awards ceremony prior to the Creative Arts Private View event. The students were invited, with their private view guests, to the presentation where Vice-Chancellor Professor Nick Jennings, SDCA Dean Professor Cees de Bont and Senior Lecturer Andrew Selby hosted and presented the awards.
Diverse Voices in Textiles Award
In partnership with The Clothworkers' Foundation, the Diverse Voices in Textiles Award pays tribute to distinguished textile practitioners who have otherwise been under-represented within curriculums and the history of textiles. This award serves to recognise an individual textiles finalist who is Black, Asian or from another Ethnic Minority; someone who identifies with the LGBTQI+ community; a person living with a disability, or an individual textiles finalist who is tackling broader social and cultural contexts of the discipline through a critical approach to textiles practice.
- Winner: Worthy Clever-Egbedi – Textiles
- Winner: Sarika Dhorajiwala – Textiles
Rosy Chetwyn Appleton Positive Impact Award
Rosy worked as Technical Tutor in Weave, where she brought so much passion, colour and dedication to the programme and its’ students. Her love and passion for weave was echoed in her beautiful designs. She found joy in creating unique pieces and helping students to do the same. She leaves behind a legacy of creativity, astounding talent, and wonderful wit. She had such a positive impact on all of us here in Creative Arts.
To honour Rosy’s life and passion, this award which celebrates ‘Positive Impact and Action’ will be awarded each year to a student within SDCA whose work, emulates the positivity, passion and joy which Rosy delivered so effortlessly.
The School will also be making a donation to Loros.
Winner: Chloe Matthews – Textiles
Edward Sharp Fund – Undergraduate
Two works have been purchased by the prize, becoming part of the University’s collection, and will be displayed around the University campus as agreed with the Vice-Chancellor’s Office. Edward Sharp was a former principal of Loughborough College of Art and Design and set up a fund to assist the College’s students on his retirement.
The winners are:
Potclays Award – Undergraduate
Winner: Emily Lavarack – Fine Art
John Mack Award – Foundation
Winners:
- Beth-Rheanna Gibson – Visual Communications
- Joe Guildford – Fine Art
- Emma Phillips – Textiles
- Ben Stutting – 3DD
Yanina Temple Colour Award – Foundation
Winners:
- Urvashi Meghji – Visual Communications
- Flora Hadjipetrou – Fine Art
- Scarlett Paling – Textiles
- Halle Burton – 3DD
Leicester Print Workshop Award - Undergraduate
Winner: Buksi Osundina – Fine Art
Access Group Award