Art2Words 2024

The Art2Words Writing Prize is an annual writing competition at The Friends’ School. Founded in 1887, The Friends’ School, an independent, coeducational day and boarding school located in the heart of Hobart, Tasmania, is the largest Quaker School in the world (and the only Quaker School in Australia), offering education programs from early learning through to Year 12. Established in 2020, the Art2Words Writing Prize is based on the ancient Greek practice of ekphrasis (responding to an artwork in words) and involves students writing either a short story or poem in response to student artwork. The artwork which is the inspiration for the creative writing is that of the winner of the school's Visual Arts Prize of the previous year. The Visual Arts Prize is an annual award, granted to a senior art student for their consistently exceptional approach to their practice, rigour of research and ideation, complexity and sophistication of the ideas and issues they explore, and the professional quality of their exhibited works.

Art2Words 2024

Scarlet Honey

by Grace Winspear

14 Oct 2024

When I told my mother I had swallowed a bee, she laughed. That was not the reaction I expected and I felt betrayed by how she was taking such a serious matter so lightly. No really, I insisted, I was in the garden and it flew into my mouth and I was...

Art2Words 2024

Pinned

by Samuel Castle

14 Oct 2024

The Accountant The numbers swarmed like hundreds of small black ants in front of my eyes, vibrating, stubbornly refusing to sit still. I’m not dyslexic. Nothing like that. I just happen to have been staring at these particular numbers for the last...

Art2Words 2024

The Hive

by Hazel Jennings

14 Oct 2024

Art2Words 2024

The Little Alchemists

by Ione Rawlings-Way

14 Oct 2024

We are the little alchemists The overlooked overseers Of ephemeral masterpieces Of copious boughs and buds unsheathed. Persephone’s orchestra Her dawn-kissed promises We dress ourselves in their yellows Nimble messengers: ‘Awake, awake!’ At...

Art2Words 2024

Oh My Mind

by Olivia Lang

14 Oct 2024

The bee, it lives in me. My chest a hive, And as you were in my eyes In my head the buzzing echos, My head oh my. How unfair is it, your crown? When my hard work shows in cracks, And yours comes from others’ backs. Oh, I only ever wanted to be you...

Art2Words 2024

I am merely human.

by Saanvi Sinha

14 Oct 2024

(My body is a microcosm.) My eyes are the fluttering wings of a butterfly With a blue morpho shine like Orion’s Rigel My skin is the golden-brown grass of the Savannah Blushed red with the desert rust of Mars My blood runs like the waters of...