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| 2005 Media release |
Winners of the Cosmic Art Challenge competition announced
9 November 2005
Hendrik de Beer, the overall winner. |
The winners of the Astronomy Month Cosmic Art Challenge, organised to commemorate the opening of South Africa's new Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) in Sutherland on
10 November 2005, were announced in Pretoria today.
The overall winner was Hendrik de Beer (17) from Valhalla, Pretoria, with his artwork entitled 'The giant eye.' Hendrik wins R2000.
The other winners are:
Category 5 - 8 years
- Luke Wessels (5) from Cape Town with his entry called 'Space': R2000
- Jacob Cloete (7) from Pretoria with his entry called 'Away we go': R1000
- Tanisha Ganda (7) from Lenasia with 'An imaginary journey through the Universe': R500
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Space
by Luke Wessels |
Away we go
by Jacob Cloete |
An imaginary journey through the Universe
by Tanisha Ganda |
Category 9 - 12 years
- Shannon Whyte from Pietermaritzburg with her entry called 'Passing in the night': R2000
- Tersia Baird (9) from Pretoria with her entry called 'Planet of the Sun': R1000
- Kgabiso Kgasago (12) from Kathlehong with 'The beauty of the Karoo night sky': R500
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Passing in the night
by Shannon Whyte |
Planet of the Sun
by Tersia Baird |
The beauty of the Karoo night sky by Kgabiso Kgasago |
Category 13 - 18 years
- Hendrik de Beer (17) from Pretoria with his entry called 'The giant eye' R2000
- Itumeleng Kgafela (16) from Hammanskraal with her entry called 'An African Universe': R1000
- Carmen Baxter (17) from Pretoria with her entry called 'African vision': R500
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The giant eye
by Hendrik de Beer |
An African Universe
by Itumeleng Kgafela |
African vision
by Carmen Baxter |
Young South Africans (5 - 18 years) were invited to enter this unique and exciting art competition organised in celebration of Astronomy Month in October 2005. Entrants made use of various mediums (such as gouache, acrylics, water colour, pastels, charcoal, oil or two-dimensional collage) to create their artwork.
These winning art works will be on display at the inauguration of the new telescope in Sutherland on 10 November 2005, at the IAU symposium (Cape Town International Convention Centre) from 14 - 18 November and at the MTN ScienCentre thereafter. Art works of the finalists will be exhibited at the Astronomical History Symposium to be held in Cape Town from 8 - 9 November 2005 and at the EC Science Communication Conference in Brussels from
14 - 15 November 2005.
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