The Lou Gardiner Craft Award: Judging Criteria
Theme – ‘What I did in lockdown’
Categories:
Art Forms
Selection of Materials
Entrants To Supply:
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.
Theme – ‘What I did in lockdown’
Categories:
Art Forms
- Painting
- Sculpture
- Literature
- Architecture
- Cinema
- Music
- Theatre
- Ceramics and glass crafts
- Fibre and textile crafts
- Flower crafts
- Leatherwork
- Houseware
- Fashion
- Needlework
- Paper crafts
- 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
Selection of Materials
- Appropriate for project
- Colour combination
- Texture and shapes used
- Creativity
- Captures attention
- Shows imaginative use of materials and ideas
- Fresh point of view
- Unique style (eg. Unique writing style), descriptive language
- Neatness
- Good use of technique
- Design related to intended use
- Appropriately finished balance, harmony at first impression
- Ideas and concepts brought out
Entrants To Supply:
- 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
- A photo of the entry
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.