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Awards of up to
£1000 each are open to young artists aged 15 to 30 to enable them to develop their
skills through mounting a special project, travel or education.
In the last twelve years
SWLA Bursaries have supported many varied projects. A bursary enabled Vicky
White to travel to Gibraltar to study and raise awareness of the Barbary
macaques as part of her MA course; Stephanie Black aimed, for the sake of
wildlife and the environment, to influence consumers to recycle more and to
refuse supermarket plastic bags, by producing free cotton bags with seabird
designs. Last year, Christopher Wallbank used his bursary to produce the
Unbound Amazonia Field Guide of local flora and fauna for use at the Manu
Biosphere Reserve of Eastern Peru and Celia Smith, winner of the former WWT
bursary, set up a display of her wire sculptures of wading birds and waterfowl
at the Annual Exhibition.
Several award winners
have gone on to become members of the SWLA thereby playing an active part in its
future direction and charitable projects.
Examples of the work of
our Bursary winners are displayed during the Annual Exhibition at the Mall
Galleries.
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