WildArt 2021
WildArt is back! We’re on the lookout for talented young artists to enter our exciting competition.
What to do
Create a piece of art inspired by nature – let your imagination run WILD! There are 2 categories to choose from this year – REAL LIFE – entries using the more traditional approach of paints, pastels, acrylics, pens or pencil. And our new GO WILD category – for those of you who want to ‘go wild’ in every sense of the word. To enter this category, experiment with textiles, sculpture, recycled and eco-friendly materials, collages – anything goes!
To Enter
Email a photo of your artwork to competitions@rspb.org.uk with the heading WildArt 2021 Competition, and tell us your age and category. WildArt is split into three age groups: under 8s, 8–12s and 13 years and over.
THE PRIZES
Not only will the winning and runner-up artwork be featured in our youth publications, but it’ll also feature in our online WildArt winner’s video, which goes out to over a million people!
The winners will also receive a £50 art voucher and there are runner-up prizes too.
The rules
- We must receive entries for the competition by Friday 27 August 2021.
- Please don’t post your artwork to us, we’re only accepting email entries and we’ll be unable to return any artwork sent in by post.
- When taking a photo of your artwork to send to us, please make sure you use natural lighting. Dark or unnatural light can result in distorted image colour/ appearance.
- We aim to inform all winners within 21 days of the closing date.
- All entrants must be under 19 and should ask permission from a parent or guardian before entering.
- Prizes are subject to availability. If, in circumstances beyond our control, we are unable to provide the stated prize, we will try to arrange an alternative prize of a similar value. No cash alternative will be offered.
- The RSPB reserves the right to cancel the competition at any time, if deemed necessary or if circumstances arise outside of the Society’s control.
Last year's winners
Meet some of last year's winners Kara, Connie, Katherine, Michael and Matilda
Hello it's Cazz Jones here and I'm the youth editor at the RSPB and I've got a wonderful little task to do today and that is to introduce the WildArt 2020 competition winners. So earlier this year we launched the competition, which in a nutshell was just asking you guys to create a piece of artwork inspired by nature, and boy you have not let us down; the RSPB competitions inbox has been pinging away with the most fantastic pieces of art that you've created at home. I think due to the lockdown people have been home more, they've been inspired by nature, they've just been creating pieces of artwork left right and centre and sending them in to us. I just wanted to say thank you so much for entering the competition this year and if you're interested and inspired by this year's artwork then we'll be running the competition in 2021 so keep an eye on our website, enjoy the winning videos and artwork we've got coming up and thank you!
Hi my name is Kara Weston-Arnold and I'm the winner of the 13 plus real-life category. Here is my pastel drawing of a fox that likes to visit our farm from nearby woods. I drew him from a photograph that I took during quarantine and I'm very happy that I won this competition and I can't wait to create more art with the materials I can buy with my voucher so thank you.
Hi everyone my name is Connie I'm 14 and I'm from Northern Ireland and I'm the winner of the 13 plus go wild category from the RSPB competition. I made this orangutan called Geoffrey and he is made of air drying clay and painted with acrylics. He took about 25 to 30 hours work overall throughout the course of about a year and I wanted to make an orangutan just, not because I wanted to enter him in a competition, but because I just love orangutans, I always have done. And then my auntie told me that I should enter him in a competition before I got bored of him or didn't like him so I did and I won.
My name's Katherine Oliver and I'm the winner of the under-8s real-life award. This is the painting that I painted and I painted it because I was learning about turtle at school and I really like turtles. It's one of my favourite animals including flamingos. I found a picture on the computer and I liked it so my dad draw on tracing paper and then after when he drew on the tracing paper and I copied it. This is how I made it, I got leaves and some stones and when we were painting it there was a stone that was really big and I just got all messy and my hands were all messy at the end, it was really fun. But also I kind of collected a snail shell and I thought that I could paint snail shells on my artwork so I painted snails shells on my artwork. I'm pretty proud of me winning the art award and also I was shocked and also surprised and because I've never won an award before and I also felt really happy and thank you so much.
My name is Michael I'm nine years old and a scholar at Wells Cathedral School. Can I start by saying that I'm absolutely thrilled by winning this competition and I would like to thank the RSPB, the SWLA and the Mall Galleries for this opportunity? My inspiration came from a sculpture I saw at the RA summer exhibition 2019 and I've been planning it ever since. The installation consists of four dramatic and rather dark animal scenes projecting climate change and pollution caused by humans these subjects cause me great upset and sadness I feel more children should be involved in projects like these as awareness from a young age is crucial for our vulnerable planet, thank you.
Hello, my name is Matilda I am the winner of the under-8s go wild category. I have made a bag with bird food grass one gem and lots of different flowers with watercolour blue for the background. I made this bird because my favourite animals are koalas horses and birds. When I was doing my schoolwork over lockdown I thought it would be good to enter this competition. There was a jar of flowers nearby which gave me the idea to do the collage. I feel very grateful and happy about winning this and remember it doesn't matter if you win or don't, it's just the fun that counts.
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