Canterbury Art Prize 2025

The Canterbury Art Prize 2025 offers students across three age group categories, Years 7-9, Years 10-11 and Years 12-13 who attend East Kent Schools the exciting opportunity to participate in this year's competition. The theme this year is ‘Layers’ and can be interpreted in any way.

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We are delighted to announce the below prize winners:

Charlotte D - Third Prize Winner in the Year 7 - 9 category

"Wonderland Wanderland" A3 Mixed Media Collage

Inspired by the amazing experimental collages of the Surrealist Art Movement, this landscape was created by layering different mixed media experimentations together, in order to create an unpredictable and imaginative landscape.

Gemma F - Second Prize Winner in the Year 12 category

"The Illusion of Identity" 122 x 81cm Acrylic Paint on Board

This piece explores the layered and often distorted ways we perceive identity. Drawing inspiration from the moiré effect, I superimposed abstract patterns over a painted portrait to create a deliberate visual interference. This artistic technique requires the exact same portrait to be painted twice, layering the paint in two different colour palettes over precisely lined tape. The impression of static distortion acts as a metaphor for the mental filters through which we view each other, regardless of the reality beneath. The overlapping layers obscuring clarity and highlighting how perception is rarely objective. This piece invites the viewer to reflect on how identity is constructed not just by who we are, but by how we are seen.