The Lou Gardiner Craft Award: Judging Criteria
Theme – ‘What I did in lockdown’
Categories:
Art Forms

• Painting
• Sculpture
•  Literature
• Architecture
• Cinema
• Music
• Theatre 

Craft Forms 

• Ceramics and glass crafts
• Fibre and textile crafts
• Flower crafts
• Leatherwork
• Houseware
• Fashion
• Needlework
• Paper crafts

Horticulture/Interior

• Garden design - Plant palette and its needs
• Landscape design - consideration of the space and placemaking to create architectural spaces and circulation routes with plants and other elements
• Interior design – room stylisation

JUDGING CRITERIA
Selection of Materials

• Appropriate for project
• Colour combination
• Texture and shapes used
• Creativity

Originality

• Captures attention
• Shows imaginative use of materials and ideas
• Fresh point of view
• Unique style (eg. Unique writing style), descriptive language

Quality of Workmanship

• Neatness
• Good use of technique

Overall Presentation 

• Design related to intended use 
• Appropriately finished balance, harmony at first impression
• Ideas and concepts brought out 

Closing date – March 31st 2022 (end of our WI ‘year’)
Entrants To Supply:

1. An A4 piece of paper explaining the concept behind the design, its execution and amount of work involved (estimate of hours worked), what pleasure/reward it gave to the individual who made it
   
2. A photo of the entry

Judges
Depending upon the number of entries, a sub-team from the Fulshaw WI may be needed to categorise the entries and critique them in advance of Lou judging the final winner.
If some of the entries (eg. garden design or room design) may be too large to be encompassed in one photo, the sub-team may be needed to visit the site to see the piece in one place and take additional photos.