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Awards of up to
£750 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. In previous years, 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.
Last year's bursary winners
were Martin Aveling, who visited Sumatra to retrace the footsteps of his
biologist parents, Gareth Williams who went on a printmaking course to improve
his skills and Helen Bullard who travelled to Orkney for her work. Download the
December
2008 Newsletter
to read about their experiences.
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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