2008 Seaweek art competition

This year our Environmental Education team ran an art competition to celebrate Seaweek.

The theme for the artwork was "One Ocean - it starts with me", celebrating fun actions students have taken during Seaweek to care for Northland's marine environment.

The winners

Congratulations to the winners of the Northland Regional Council 2008 Seaweek Art Competition!

The winning works were:

Category	School	Title	Students
Junior group	Raurimu Avenue School	Is this the Way You Want Your Fish and Chips	Students of Room 7
Junior individual	Oromahoe School	100,000 Sea Creatures Killed by Plastic Bags	Dirk Bergman
Intermediate Group	Kaitaia Intermediate	There is Not Plenty of Fish in the Sea	Tony Curle, Quineece Doel, Wiremu Kopae-Leefe, Maia Motu, Denzel May Joshua Slater.
Intermediate Individual	Maungatapere School	Don’t Pollute the Water	Ashley Kemp
Senior Individual	Mangakahia Area School	Preserve Our Kaimoana	Erin Murphy

Thank you to the sixteen Northland schools which sent in art to the competition. We received over 350 pieces! Selecting the finalists was difficult as the standard of work was high. The art was colourful and made with thought and care.

The three judging criteria used to select the finalists the main one being that the work displayed a clear, strong message. All pieces making the final selection displayed this.

Enjoy the art from the finalists and those selected as winners below.

Exhibition of artwork

The art work is now being exhibited around Whangarei in the following places:

Winning works will be exhibited at the Storytime Book Store in The Strand on Vine, Whangarei.
The remaining finalists are to be exhibited in the children’s section of the Whangarei library.
A selection of other competition art works is to be exhibited at Forum North