2010 Ken Sprague ‘Money makes the World Go Round’

[Василий Александров]

Dear Friends
We are pleased to announce the results of the 2010 Ken Sprague International Political Cartoon Competition ‘Money makes the World Go Round’ after the jury decision on 10 May.

The jury found it incredibly difficult to choose winners this year, as the standard was extremely high.

Winners

First prize: Farhad Bahrami Reykani (Iran)

Second prize: Mihai Ignat (Romania)

Third prize: awarded jointly to

Ross Thomson (UK) and Robert Gumpertz (USA)



The Appledore Visual Arts Festival Young Cartoonists’ Prize was awarded jointly to:

Hélène Crusson Ripoche and Melle Cecile Quéau (France)



The following runners-up were ‘highly commended’ and will receive a certificate.

Cristina Bernazzani (Italy)
Zakeri Alireza (Iran)
Jitet Koestana (Indonesia)
Murat Gök
Gabriel Ippoliti (Argentina)
Milos Pahic (Croatia)
Darko Drljevic (Mexico)
Lucian Do
Pavel Constantin (Romania)
Osvaldo Diàz Moreira (Cuba)
Benjasit Tumying (Thailand)
Veselin Damyanov-Ves (Bulgaria)
William Rudling (UK)
Thom Dean (Indonesia)
Automiadis Yannis (Greece)
Petar Jankov (Macedonia)
Ares (Cuba)
Bobby Starrett (UK)
Sidnei Marques (Brazil)
Constantin Ciosu (Romania)

The winners and a selection of the runners-up will be shown on the Ken Sprague Fund website shortly. http://www.kenspraguefund.org

We would like to thank all cartoonists for taking part and wish you all success in your future work.

John Green on behalf of the Jury

Jury members were:
Cartoonists Martin Rowson, Jacky Fleming and Viv Quillan, Co-editor of New Internationalist, Alan Hughes, Cliff Cocker, Arts editor at Morning Star, Sandy Brown and Pat Milner from Appledore Visual Arts Festival Committee.


First prize: Farhad Bahrami Reykani from Iran, although only age 25 yrs is our youngest winner so far. He demonstrated impressive drawing skill. His characterisation of the ‘rich west’ as an over-fed, fat and vulgar white tourist, with his earphones stuck in his ears, swigging Coca-Cola, and the poor in the developing world, symbolised by a black child, left only a dribble of polluted water is a powerful statement that encapsulates the crass economic injustice in today’s world.


Second prize went to Mihai Ignat (Romania) who produced a wonderfully executed and very painterly cartoon which showed in clear visual terms what money signifies for many of us today: without money you can’t eat. So as the customer attempts to pay with ‘worthless money’, the waiter, in response, draws his plate for the food on to the table cloth too.


The third prize was awarded jointly to two cartoonists as the jury was unable to choose one above the other.

British cartoonist Ross Thomson cleverly utilises the idea of the famous Russian dolls that fit into each other as they become smaller and puts them in a banking context. The two robbers are opening the bank’s safes, but find only smaller and smaller safes inside the larger ones, ending up with nothing for their labours, like many in the world today who have lost savings and jobs because of the banking crisis.

‘Banker!’ by Robert Gumpertz (USA) immediately made members of the jury chuckle. It is a simple drawing with a strong message: Its humour lies in its oxymoronic assertion that the most dangerous and vicious fish in the sea could be frightened of a skinny little man in a diver’s suit. It underlines the point that it is the bankers who have brought the world to the brink of economic collapse and in their behaviour are in fact more dangerous than sharks and, in fact, are the sharks in our society.

The Appledore Visual Arts Festival Young Cartoonists’ Prize

Joint First Prize:

Hélène Crusson Ripoche and Melle Cecile Quéau are both from France and both aged only 21yrs. The jury felt that both demonstrated excellent drawing skills and captured the essence of the subject matter. Ms Quéau makes a double point with her cartoon: the bankers in the form of an anthropomorphic Euro male is tightening the corsets on a woman, symbolising the people. She is suffering and can hardly breathe or move, and protests that he’s making it too tight, but he tells her to shut up, as that’s what’s demanded today!

Ms Ripoche takes the competition’s title and interprets it in clear visual terms: the cyclist is continually chasing the unreachable wealth that a bank note signifies, but in doing so his/her labours keep the world turning.

[Василий Александров]

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