You may remember this little guy I made over a year ago. It was during the first lockdown in April 2020, and we had just started the coiling module at City Lit, when everything closed down.
However, our tutor Polly Pollock continued to have regular weekly Zoom meetings with the group, giving us advice and feedback on our coiling projects, the theme of which was animal markings. My piece was inspired by the radiated tortoise, a critically endangered species from Madagascar.
Fast forward to April 2021, when our college classes resumed in person. We were all asked to bring in our coiled pieces and sketchbooks for assessment.
A few weeks later I heard that I had been one of two students awarded the Christiane Sand City Lit Award for Coiling.
Christiane Sand first enrolled on the City Lit Creative Basketry course in September 2011. After completing it she was diagnosed with cancer and re-enrolled in 2015 as a therapeutic pursuit alongside her cancer treatments. For her coiling project she made a wolf basket, which she found challenging but ultimately rewarding. This is what led her husband Nigel Grant to set up two awards for students who produce outstanding work in the coiling module.
As you can imagine, I’m well chuffed! The prize is £250 to be spent on a basketry course, which will allow me to keep feeding my habit. 🙂
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Congratulation ! This piece was amazing and so is your passion. Thank you for sharing your work.
Anny
Thanks so much Anny – much appreciated!
Congratulations on the well deserved prize!
The basket is unusual and beautiful.
Thank you Judith!
Congratulations! You must be chuffed! It is a lovely piece.
Congratulations – I’m not surprised that your lovely basket won the award. 🙂
An amazing interpretation of the endangered tortoise, very tactile and a well deserved award. Congratulations.
Thanks very much Jo!
Kim totally & utterly deserved. Congrats.
Thanks so much Antje!
Congratulations!
Thanks Marilyn!
Great news, and very well deserved Kim