Volunteer Photographer Steven Smith (centre) presented with an award

Throughout the sculpture project, Art UK organised events and competitions for volunteers. In 2019, a large celebration event was held at the Barbican in London. As well as a number of papers presented by Art UK staff and volunteers, Dr Michael Pritchard, Chair of the Royal Photographic Society, presented the prizes from a photography competition. In addition, the sculptor Hazel Reeves gave a presentation about her work.

Art UK holds regular photography competitions which give our volunteers an opportunity to take more inventive images of sculpture. Below are a selection of images from competition winners in 2019. Many of the entries were made into a calendar.

Sculpture photography competition – first place winner

'1101' (Tommy) by Ray Lonsdale (b.1965)

Sculpture photography competition – third and second place winners

Steven Smith's photograph of 'Halo' by John Kennedy (left), and Jane Roblin's image of 'Glow Tree' by Neil Wood (right)

Perhaps inevitably, two competitions that Art UK held in 2020 focused on 'lockdown', and later on the theme of 'thankfulness'.

Sculpture photography competition entries