Revealed: Clancy Prize winners

ACU School of Education Award winner: St Ursula’s College Kingsgrove alumna, Anna Giannini, with her artwork Intricacy. “During 2020 we were isolated and had to find new ways to ‘look up’,” said Anna, who is now studying fashion. “My artworks are a symbolic and spiritual representation of this.”

St Mary’s Cathedral Sydney alumnus, Martino Kanasugi, with his work Don’t Blink (keep watching). “The sensitive use of a translucent Mickey, whispering subliminal messages, alludes to the sinister nature of the ‘screen’,” said Martino, who is now studying Bachelor of Design at UNSW.

Br Kelvin Canavan Prize winner: De La Salle College Cronulla students Sean Maquiran, Lily McAdam and Christina Stambolziovska produced Lasallian Madonna, taking inspiration from the luminous colour of Giovanni Bellini’s Madonnas. “I’m quite proud to see it all come together; I saw some people taking photos of it and I thought ‘Great!’” said Lily.

Clancy Catholic College West Hoxton Year 7 students Natalia Azzi and Winnie Lay Quach with their collaborative work, Faces of Clancy. “It’s exciting to see everyone looking at it’,” said Winnie. “It’s really outstanding to see (all our portraits) gathered as one.”

Packing Room Prize – Year 9 Photographic and Digital Media: Marist Sisters’ College Woolwich students created the artwork Marist in name and nature. “Patron saints inspired us,” said Ziani Viola.

Throughout 2020 and 2021 Year 7 and 8 students from Trinity College Regents Park were encouraged to draw casts of religious statues found on campus, outside the neighbouring convent and inside the neighbouring church. The result is this work, A world to which we can turn. Pictured is student-artist Stephanie Nguyen who said: “I’m proud of my school.”

ACU School of Arts and Sciences Award winner: Collaborative artwork, Red & White: MCK Now and Then, celebrates the history and culture of Marist College Kogarah.

The Monsignor Doherty Prize winner: Laura Da Luz and Liam Ilkovski with Marist College Penshurst collaborative artwork, Individual identity makes us. “It was really fun working together,” said Laura. Each student created self-portrait busts representing their own emotions, expressions, personalities and physical traits – they all agreed that over 200 years of Catholic education, one thing remains constant: the individual identity of students.

St Patrick’s Sutherland alumna Charlotte Litchfield with her artwork, Maurice, His faith and spirit still lives on in me. “Maurice was my grandfather, who had been living with dementia and was at the stage of severe cognitive decline whilst I was completing my HSC,” said Charlotte, who is now studying business at the University of Wollongong but hopes to continue her passion for art. “I find it really therapeutic,” Charlotte said.

ACU School of Education Award winner: The collaborative artwork, Fiercest Fauves, celebrates 200 years of Catholic education and 120 years since Brigidine Catholic College Randwick was founded. “Art has been a big part of my life since I was little,” said collaborating artist Finn Rooney Weimers (pictured with Bella Seeto). Asked if she’d sell her quarter of the artwork, Finn remarked with tongue firmly in cheek: “For the right price!”

St Patrick’s Sutherland alumnus Yianna Karantonis with his pencil drawings, titled Unlived memories, depicting his paternal and maternal grandfathers. “Although I did not physically know (them), their experiences and lives feel like that of a distant memory, gathering a sense of reality through my life, my head filled with stories of their mandatory military service experiences, migration to Australia and stories of their love towards my parents,” said Yianna, who is now studying property economics.

The Executive Director’s Award winner: Southern Cross Catholic College Burwood construction student Charlotte McCaughan’s artwork, titled Tableland of Faith and Time, tells her story of redemptive healing following a life-altering head injury. “My injury made me question my faith in God and if it were not for the teachers and family members who supported my academic work and social life, I would not be sharing my experiences with the world around me,” said Charlotte. “The physicality of the wood demonstrates my skills and the symbolism of the cross and stars reflect those people and places that I have navigated in my faith journey.”