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David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation
GLOBAL CANVAS COMPETITION 2013 Event Magazine
Millie Oulton, 14, 1st prize 14year olds, Priorsfield School
David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation
Global Canvas Art and Poetry Competition 2013
Welcome to the 2013 event magazine. This year’s competition generated hundreds of fabulous art and poetry entries from all over the world and we hope that you were as proud as we were with the fabulous display at the Natural History Museum in London this March. This on-line magazine features some of the winners work along with photographs from the event. We hope that you enjoy it and look forward to your entries for the 2014 competition with its theme ‘It’s Our World’. You’ll find more information about it on-line. Remember, we welcome individual and school entries and there’s now an under 8s category. Thank you again for all your hard work and enthusiasm for wildlife!
Kim Hale Kim Hale Education Manager and Event Organiser DSWF Saba House 7 Kings Road Shalford Guildford Surrey GU4 8JU Tel: 01483 272323 Email: Kim.Hale@davidshepherd.org
www.davidshepherd.org
Overall Art Competition Winner, Charlotte Sherlock, age 9 ‘Our future is hanging in the balance’ bee mobile
Shattering the Future Infinite Possibility There are a thousand different futures That they could have. Like A candle flame; One drop of water, One breath of wind, Would be the end. The future depends on the past. We are that past. It will be our fault If it goes wrong. We are the ones Who can shatter that future.
Overall Winner Charlotte Moberly age 12, St Paul’s Girls School
Aiko Elliot, age 13, Ashdown House School
Tumelo Muyangwa and Elizabeth Ramsey, age 16, Simba International School, Zambia
Elephants Synonymous with David Shepherd, the elephant is the largest land mammal on earth. These beautiful giants live in family groups and are known for their sensitivity. The demand for ivory from the Far East is fuelling a new wave of ivory poaching and pushing the species towards extinction.
Elephants Once endangered now protected, Their trunks held high. Feeding off the trees, The noble elephant But poachers still lured by gleaming tusks, Oh those great pounding feet, Put to rest by guns. 1ST PRIZE (8-10 Category) Olivier Greeves Aged 9 Brighton College Prep School
Stanley Pratt, age 10, Brighton College Prep School
Prudence Butler, age 9, Ashdell Prep School
Anna Tigruk, age 11, Russia
Flora Pratt, age 12, Prior’s Field School
Eve Mayhead, age 12, Prior’s Field School Chiara Goldthorpe, age12, St John Fisher Catholic High School
Lily Godbole, age 8, Ashdell Prep School
Olesya Rodinovo, age 16, Russia
Tigers Beautiful, inspirational and charismatic, the largest of the planet’s big cats faces a serious threat of extinction due to habitat destruction and the illegal trade in tiger parts.
Noah Flanagan, age 7, Beechwood Park School
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Max Harris., age 10, Longacre School
Charlotte Jackson, age 12, Stanley Park High School
Rayne Heinze, age 13
Jasper Oursin, age 8, L’Armenier & Sacred Heart
Emily Samuelson, age 10, Raha International School
Danielle Reynolds, age 11, LICS, Zambia
Spreading the word... By taking part in the Global Canvas Competition you are helping to spread the word about the importance of biodiversity and wildlife to the future of a sustainable planet. It is the younger generation who can help influence change so that the planet remains full of a rich spread of animals and plants.
Georgie Savage, age 14, Prior’s Field School
Thomas Morley, age 8, Hall Grove School
Khushi Suraj, age 12, St Michaels Academy, India
Katie Edwards, age 11, Ashdell Prep School
Lucy Hunt, age 12, Ashdown House School
STIRRED The sky appears stirred, like soup. Clouds rise, misshapen sunken bread, floating indefinitely, Licked by feint aeroplane trails that whisk crème fraiche Around a the vast breadth of heavy, cooling colour. Birds are sprinkled unevenly, Seasoned, In unified swarms of dark slashes. Grey brick breaks the surface; Rusting cutlery intercepts the smooth skin And reflected light sprinkles Artificial, Unwelcome across the enclosing bowl.
Alina Kuznetsova, age 9, Russia
Man steals a heaping steaming spoonful with greed And flecking pidgeons dart to the cool metal. Seasoning crosses the china And weighted, textured drips slop, Leaving faded paths And marks We cannot wipe away. 1ST JOINT (Age 14 – 16 Catergory) Emma Louise Pudge Age 16 Prior’s Field School, Godalming Daria Grushin, age 15, Russia
Dmitry Leushin, age 11, Russia
Connor Phipps, age 14
Esme Heath, age 9, Ashdown House School
FRAGILE FUTURE Come run through the pinetrails of the forest Come taste the sun-sweet berries of the earth Come roll in all the lushious greenery all around you From the iroko to the timber, to the wild rose From the elephant to the hawk, to the little ant All the trees and wildlife – that is me Have you for once thought of my worth? Have you bothered to know how I give to you? But if you cut down and kill, you will never know Yet I cry – oh what a fragile future.
Elizabeth Royd, age 7, Weyfield Primary School
The raindrops and the wind are my brothers for they caress me The blackbird and the starling are my friends, They make me flutter in rhythmic steps like the victorious war lord We all are connected one to another in a cycle, in a hoop unending But if you cut down and kill, you will never know Yet I cry – on what a fragile future. If you kill and destroy me – oh behold a fragile future of greed The blackbird and the starling become silenced The rainstorm hits hard on my back washing me away The trees loose their nutrients, their nourishment leaving me sliding and slipping away The wildlife cries for help as they become homeless How dead the earth will become without me How hungry and impoverished you will leave yourself Stop! Oh please stop Think twice! Yes, think again Don’t cut me down! Don’t kill and sell me! Take care now this fragile-future JOINT 1ST PRIZE (14 – 16 Category) Eze M Lovelyn, age 15, Nigeria
Frederick Smith, age 10, Ashdown House School
Georgina Grindley, age 16 Katie Slape, age 13, Prior’s Field School
Jamie Walker, age 12, Aldro
Lena Salova, age 10, Russia
Lisa Radchenko, age 9, Russia
Kyan Hoque, age 10
Max Holden, age 10, Brambletye School
ELEPHANT’S SONG
Megan Dunne, age 14, Tollbar Academy
At the watering hole there are musical cries, Great fountains of water are sprayed at the skies, Strong, charcoal bodies with dark wrinkled features, These, surely, are Kenya’s most beautiful creatures, But a saddening blue are the notes that they sing, For they know that their future’s a vulnerable thing, These Creatures await a terrible fate, As they bellow and bathe and compete for a mate, As you stalk them and watch them all mighty and wild, Do you see them as money, not father and child, Do you aim for his brains when you shoot through his hide, Does your small heart not ache for the calf at his side, And when the brave creature cascades to his knees, Do you know that your face is the last thing that he sees, Once you’ve run with your gun to the place where he fell, Is that all you can think of – goods that you’ll sell, Do you not hear his last trumpeting cry, As the humble beast closes his dark eyes to die. He’s a grandiose giant you’ve known from the start, So are his tusks truly worth more than his heart, Yes, why do you poach when you know it’s so wrong, Do you not hear the great elephant’s song? 2ND Prize (Age 14 – 16 Category) Philippa Crundwell age 14, Millais School,
Mya Taylor, age 11, St Joseph’s Primary
Nell Millership, age 10, Weyfield Primary School
Suzie Exley, age 13, Hurstpierpoint College
Torin Laurie, age 7
A 12 EYED MONSTER Cars driving down the street, Like a thieving monster, Striking holes on the Ozone, Nobody cars about our earth, Thinking it will go on forever, With 12 lights, bright, shining eyes. You look after these creatures, I don’t understand why you can’t look after the Earth, It rampages the Earth, It’s thieving monster, With 12 lights, bright, shining eyes.
Exhibitors from Weyfield Primary School
All these destructive creatures, Roaming the Earth like it their own, Having fun, destroying our Earth, They’re out of control, Once you use it you can’t stop, With 12 lights, bright, shining eyes. 2ND PRIZE ( 8 – 10 category) Clara Johnson Age 10 Forest School Global Canvas Art & Poetry Competition 2014 ‘It’s Our World’ For more details see the website www.davidshepherd.org
The event at the Natural History Museum ... Once again the prize-giving at the Natural History Museum was extremely well attended. With talks by wildlife artist, conservationist and founder of DSWF, David Shepherd CBE and DSWF education advisor, Andrew White and his pupils from Dane Court Grammar, it was busy and colourful day. This is just a selection of photos - if you had your picture taken and would like a copy do get in touch by contacting kim@davidshepherd.org
Overall art winner Charlotte Sherlock with David
The DSWF team of staff and brilliant volunteers
Attendees from Ashdown House School
Beechwood Park School pupils with David Shepherd
Schools from all over the UK and representatives from Nigeria enjoyed having their photos taken with David Shepherd
PHOTOGRAPHS These photographs are available to be emailed to you on request - so that we could upload them as quickly as possible they have not been ‘tweaked’ but we’ll happily improve the quality before forwarding to you. Please email your request to: kim.hale@davidshepherd.org
THANK YOU Thank you to everyone who took part in this year’s Global Canvas competitions. We look forward to seeing your work next year in the 2014 ‘It’s Our World’ competition. For more information see:
www.davidshepherd.org/education/
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