After lots of deliberation and a few, lets say ‘heated’, debates, the winners of a competition to produce artwork for our East Midlands Airport (EMA) hub have finally been announced!
Congratulations to our six Primary School competition winners: Eleanor Harper, Molly Daykin, and Lewis Morgan from Orchard Primary School, and Lois Abiodun, Laurie Field and Owen Dunmore from Kegworth Primary School. Illustrators Ros Goodall and Will Haywood were also announced as winners from Loughborough University.
For the competition, we asked students from the two primary schools and Loughborough University to create stunning pieces of art to liven up the hub interior.
There was only one catch: students had to try and capture the worldwide scope of what DHL does in their work. Not an easy task, but as you can probably tell from the image above, one that the students approached with real gusto and imagination. With over 170 local children and students entering, competition was fierce, but winners have been justly rewarded with a selection of prizes and the chance to have their masterpieces permanently displayed at the EMA hub.
“This competition has given students from Loughborough an excellent opportunity to develop their CVs. Being able to say that a global company such as DHL has commissioned your work is certainly a great head start for our illustrators,” explained Loughborough University’s own Illustration and Animation Lecturer, Andrew Selby, who helped judge the competition and ran art workshops for the children.
Headteachers from each school expressed delight at being involved in the project. “Our children really enjoyed the workshop. Knowing that their art will be hanging in one of the area’s biggest businesses has given them a sense of real pride,” said Anne Sherwood, Head at Orchard Primary School. It was a sentiment echoed by Louise Norton, Head at Kegworth Primary, who added: “The children were delighted to think of exciting and different ways in which packages could be transported to such a huge variety of places.”
The final images are on permanent display at DHL’s EMA hub. To see more examples of the entrants work, check out our Flickr page.