Hundred Heroines, the Gloucester based charity dedicated to celebrating women in photography, is delighted to announce the three winners of the Knife Angel Photography Competition. Congratulations to Annie Blick, Christine Smith and Paul Clark, whose entries showed both high levels of skill and artistic merit.
“From the nearly 500 entries, it was a challenging task to select only 3. We enjoyed looking at so many wonderful interpretations of the Angel’s visit to Gloucester. We’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who entered.” (Del Barrett, Chair of Hundred Heroines).
The winning images, and others, are now on display in the Eastgate Shopping Centre, and the public will have the chance to vote for their favourite from Thursday 23rd March. And if you didn’t get around to entering the local competition, you can still submit your images to the national competition (details on the British Ironwork Centre website).
The National Monument for Serious Violence and Aggression, the Knife Angel, was on display in Gloucester throughout February. The initiative was supported by county wide organisations that came together through the Stronger, Safer Gloucester community safety partnership to bring the striking symbol of peace to the city.
As well as Hundred Heroines participating in the campaign with the photography competition, the charity also acquired a Knife Rose (created by internationally acclaimed artist, Renate Bertlmann) with the support of the Stronger, Safer Gloucester Partnership. The rose is on permanent display at the Heroines Quarter in the Eastgate Centre, and as part of the campaign’s legacy, it will form the basis of future programming increasing awareness of violence against women and girls.
