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Mervyn Peake Awards - 2011 winners

Thank you to everyone who entered the Mervyn Peake Awards in 2011. We received 504 entries - a record number! We would like to congratulate our winners, commended entrants and People's Choice winners for 2011.

After much deliberation, our 3 judges - the sons and daughter of Mervyn Peake - selected the winners of the main 4 categories as:

'Enchanted Forest' by Marjorie Abbott - Mervyn Peake Awards 2011 art winnerArt

Winner
'Enchanted Forest' by Marjorie Abbott (painting right)

Commended entries

  • 'Sea Buoys Ashore' by Sylvia Hogg
  • 'Strand' by Liesl Silverstone
  • 'Secret Place' by Peter Bagley

Poetry

Winner
'The Unstrung Violin' by Ali Finlayson

'Alley Palley' by John Horwood - Mervyn Peake Awards 2011 photography winner

Commended entries

  • 'Waltzing Dream' by Mo Browne
  • 'Tipping Point' by Michael Bernard
  • 'The Stone at the Door' by Terry Matthews

Photography

Winner
'Alley Palley' by John Horwood (photo right)

Commended entries

  • 'Open Invitation' by Pauline McNulty
  • 'A Portrait of A Brother' by Andrew Fraser
  • 'Spiderwoman' by Havovy Fernandes

Digital art

Winner - 'Be Loud' by Eric Popplewell (video below)

Commended entries

  • 'Give and Take' by John Stamford
  • 'Syncopated Snowman' by Julie Clark
  • 'It Happened One Night' by Ken Smith-Simmons

People's Choice winners

To mark the centenary of the birth of Mervyn Peake and the 10th anniversary of the awards this year, we also asked people to vote for their favourite piece of work, with the most popular entries appearing in our 2012 calendar.

View the People's Choice winners.

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