The Chwarae Teg Design Contest

Want to get creative?

With the judging process completed the 5 finalists in the Chwarae Teg Design Contest can be announced. They are:
Brogan Kingsley from Wrexham and Yasmine Jones, Katie-May Bees, Verity Lunn and Charlottle O’Hare who study at Bridgend College.

The winner will be announced on 8th March as part of the launch of Chwarae Teg’s 20th Anniversary Exhibition at Swansea’s Waterfront Museum.

The judges and everyone at Chwarae Teg would like to thank all the women who entered the Design Contest. We have been delighted with the standard of entries and level of creative thinking that has gone into the submissions has been truly impressive.

All the entries can be viewed below and from 9th March you will be able to see the finalists work on display at the Waterfront Museum for three months.

In the build-up towards Chwarae Teg's 20th Anniversary in 2012 we are launching a Design Contest.

The Chwarae Teg design contest is giving women who are studying in the creative disciplines, for example: art, graphic design, fashion, sculpture etc. the opportunity to create a fresh perspective on the importance of striving for fair play for women in Wales.

Using our existing green and purple 'ribbons' logo the objective is to create a piece of work that will show this symbol of 'Fairplay for Women' in a new and innovative context. It is open to female students based in Wales studying from A-level upwards at school, college or university.

As part of their prize the winner and two runners up will have their entries displayed in the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea for a period of 3 months starting on 8th March 2012.

Their work will form part of an exhibition to chart 20 years of Chwarae Teg's achievements in supporting the economic development of women in Wales.

The closing date for submissions is Sunday 18th December 2011.

To find out more about the contest and how to enter click here.

The Chwarae Teg Design Contest is being supported by Wessex Garages, who have created a unique Fiat 500 to help promote the contest.

If you see the Fiat 500 out and about feel free to take a photo and send it to post@chwaraeteg.com for us to add to the album.

Click here to see photos of the Wessex Garage’s Chwarae Teg Design Contest Fiat 500.

Submissions will be featured below and you are welcome to add your comments in your choice of language. These comments will be taken into consideration by our panel of judges.

Uploaded by: Brogan Kingsley [3 Comments]

My primary inspiration for this illustration was female aerial dancers. Their power and grace captivated me, and I believe they embodied some of the characteristics that Chwarae Teg promotes- skill, strength, and poise, which I believe are all important qualities for the development of women in the workplace, and I was compelled to utilize them to make a striking image. I was also very inspired by the description behind the Chwarae Teg ribbons logo, which is what the aerial dancers are using to perform their feat and are also featured at the centre of the image, which also focuses on the women reaching out to support each other, representing a more literal interpretation of the logo. I feel the word ‘support’ was quite important, and I wanted to communicate that with the women reaching out towards each other. The light and dark contrasts in the image were inspired by the idea of ‘ying-yang’, a balance, and equality, which is very important for fairplay for women in the workplace, in addition to the idea of coming together and meeting in the middle, which are themes I have attempted to communicate in my illustration.