Each year our charity partners VICTA run a Braille Art Competition which is open to all young people with a vision impairment aged 0 to 29 years. The challenge this year was to create a piece of Braille art with the theme of ‘time’. Time is the 2024 theme for British Science Week and they were tasked with being as imaginative as possible.
As always, our students were super keen to enter and took to the drawing board to plan their ideas. Inspiration and creativity levels were sky high and after many hours of work, 12 pieces were ready for submission.
We are over the moon to announce that NCW came a Runner Up in the Schools category! Well done students! Please take a minute to admire their artwork below and if you would like to see all the other entries from VI children across the whole of the UK, please click here.
Congratulations to all the winners!
Aliyah, age 12 – ‘Seasons’
Aliyah has created four tactile images from air drying clay to represent each of the seasons and positioned them next to the name of the season in braille. Autumn is a brown leaf, winter is a white snowflake, spring is a yellow flower and summer is a chocolate ice cream in an orange waffle cone.
Darcy, age 11- ‘Tea Time’
Darcy has created what looks like a pizza with a slice taken from it. Cream tissue paper is sandwiched between two card shapes. They have decorated it with tomato shapes made from textured red paper and shiny green foil paper.
Finn, age 12 – ‘Clock’
Finn has made a 3D clock from card with a white paper face. The numbers are set in braille using different coloured pompoms. He has made arrow-shapes clock hands and coloured them in black – they are attached using a split pin so that you can turn them.
Ruby, age 12 – ‘Jumble Time’
Ruby’s clock is decorated with shiny green foil paper. She has cut out numbers, coloured with felt top pens. The clock has hands made from textured yellow card.
Lawson, age 13 – ‘My Clock’
Lawson has made a clock from blue sugar paper with scrunchy paper around the outside. The numbers are made using pink Wikki Stix and the clock hands using brown corrugated card.
Jamie, age 14 – ‘Record in time’
Jamie has made a clock from cardboard, he has stuck on braille numbers, cardboard hands and a pattern using Wikki Stix.
George, age 12 – ‘The Cycle of Birds’
George has made a black bird using air drying clay. It has a red beak and red detail on the wings and has its wings out as if flying up away from its nest. The nest has been made by gluing together real sticks and has eggs sitting in the middle made from white air drying clay.
Ellie, age 13 – ‘Fossil Fish’
Ellie has used a branch with lots of smaller branches shooting off the sides to represent the shape of a fish fossil. She has glued white paper over the top to form a tactile image.
Rory, age 11 – ‘My Favourite Time of the Day, Breakfast with Toast and Jam’
Rory has created an image of a clock – he has stuck down yellow tissue paper and then a rectangle of foil for the screen. The time stuck on top is 8:15. There are three pom poms at the top and a wiggly yellow pipe cleaner for the wire. In the bottom left is a paper plate with corrugated card for the toast and ripped, textured, red card for the jam.
Maxwell, age 14 – ‘My Favourite Time on a Train’
Maxwell has printed an image of a modern train and painted it. He has stuck Wikki Stix around the edges to make the shape of the train tactile.
Zac, age 12 – ‘Seed Growing’
Zac has used a braille embosser to create a series of images. It starts with a pot, then a pot with a stalk emerging until a plant with branches has grown from the pot.
Isabel, age 14 – ‘Choices in Time’
Isabel has created a diamond/spinning top shape using a braille embosser.
