WILTSHIRE LIFE Awards 2018 31
The Arts and Culture Award
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Winner LeaMosaics
Lea is a mosaic artist based in Ludgershall. Her passion comes from nature and beauty, allowing
a unique and dynamic style of mosaic application.
Last year she worked on a mosaic more than 17 metres long and 90cm high, with
Wellington Academy pupils. The design came from pupils’ thoughts and ideas about what the
school means to them. Lea enjoyed seeing how the pupils flourished within the class and how
they took ownership of the project, helping each other and the younger pupils. She also worked
closely with staff on their input.
Lea was devoted to the project, from design to delivery. Pupils were thoroughly engaged; this
was more than just an art class. The mosaic took seven months to complete and is now proudly
displayed in the Academy’s entrance hall.
Lea is involved in delivering mosaic classes for dementia sufferers in Tidworth and
Ludgershall. She teaches the classes in her own time and provides free materials.
Second place Gemma Brunton
Gemma Brunton is a photographer based near Salisbury who specialises in portraiture of babies
and children, and in ‘boudoir’ photography, an often misunderstood genre that seeks to allow
women to celebrate themselves through stylish and intimate personal portraits. She also helps
women who have been through breast cancer treatment by creating sensitive portraits to help
them on the road to emotional recovery. Gemma has a love of photographing children too.
One of her projects looks at the concept of girls on the cusp of adulthood.
Third place Ann Cardew and Helen Look
Ann Cardew and Helen Look have an unusual way of working, creating all their mosaics and
works on paper together. An absence of ego means decisions are made for the good of the
pieces, which start as a visual record of daily events. For example, Twickenham Boys references
the achievement of Bishop Wordsworth’s School’s 1st XV in reaching the final of the Nat West
Cup in 2017. Helen and Ann started working together at art school but studiously avoided an
exhibition until 2017: a crowning achievement that raised funds for Salisbury Hospice Charity.
Lea was devoted
to the project, from
design to delivery and
pupils were thoroughly
engaged; this was more
than just an art class