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.
Read the artist’s statements below.
WINNERS
Secondary poetry: Untitled by Elizabeth Anders-Cooke
Secondary story: Back Home by Rose Pullinger
Senior secondary poetry: I am Merely Human by Saanvi Sinha‘
Senior secondary story: The Hive by Hazel Jennings
Secondary poetry
Unspoken Heroes by Xavier Cooper
Untitled by Elizabeth Anders-Cooke
Secondary story
Back Home by Rose Pullinger
Senior secondary poetry
Apiology by Amelia Hoskin-Newell
I am Merely Human by Saanvi Sinha‘
Oh My Mind by Olivia Lang
The Little Alchemists by Ione Rawlings-Way
Senior secondary story
The Hive by Hazel Jennings
Pinned by Samuel Castle
Scarlet Honey by Grace Winspear
