Images by Bethany Pass, Maya Krishan and Jessica Mitchell
Black Swan Arts Young Open 2020
Long Gallery and Round Tower Gallery
Available as a virtual tour
We are not able to offer any more visitor appointments as one of our café staff has had symptoms for COVID-19. As a precaution we have closed the building and are deep cleaning. Find out the latest announcements from our COVID-19 information page.
We aim to go ahead with collection of work as planned on Sunday as planned but will confirm with exhibitors.
Collecting your work
We will arrange to carefully take the show down and need your help to ensure all work is returned safely at long last to your homes. Please come and collect your work after the last day of the exhibition on Sunday 1 November.
In order to stagger the collection of work, we ask you to collect work during the timeslot according to the first letter of your last name as follows;
- 11am – 11.50pm : A – F
- 12pm – 12.50pm : G – L
- 1pm – 1.50 pm : M – S
- 2pm – 2.50 pm : T – Z
The Young Open is our annual competition for creatives between the ages of 8 and 19. We’re always impressed with the variety and vibrancy of work submitted. It is one of our best-attended exhibitions of the year.
The Young open gives younger artists the opportunity to experience entering an art competition and to have their work displayed in an art gallery. We hope that entrants from the Young Open will go on to take part in the Art Open as they get older.
Black Swan Arts is proud to collaborate with local education providers. We welcome group submissions from schools and colleges and entries from individuals.
As with our Art Open, there are also prizes awarded. Visit the competition site to submit an entry or to view our full competition details, terms and guidelines.
The 2020 panel of independent judges
Prize winners
8 – 11 years
Indigo Cameron Clarke
‘Indigo Spring’
Jacob Kersey
‘Le Pets’
Francisco Rogers Reilly
‘One Small Step’
Oliver Squirrell
‘Tragic Beauty’
Highly commended, 8 – 11 years
- Logan Hallybonen, ‘Sunset’
- Ben le Bas, ‘Diana’
- Oscar Picken, ‘Nunney Castle’
- Nancy Walter, ‘An Eight Year Old’s View of Frome’
12 – 15 years
Eliza McKeever
‘Magestic Hare’
Nell Ttwheam
‘Old Boots’
Violet Venables Ziminski
‘Nymph’
Emily Weale
‘You, looking at me’
Highly commended, 12 – 15 years
- Biz Kendall, ‘Inner Darkness’
- Eva Larsen, ‘Cells’
- Jay P Macgillan, ‘Winter Magpie’
- L’Lainne Wood, ‘Hare’
16 – 19 years
Thea Knight
‘Dad’
Miranda Li
‘After Tangshan’
Tom MacCallum
‘Surrealism’
Anouk Sonntag
‘Self Portrait’
Highly commended, 16 – 19 years
- Lucja Korczak, ‘Non omnis moriar’
- Otta Brown, ‘Life Study’
- Amy Diment, ‘untitled’
- Charlie Matthews, ‘Jellyplastic’
Exhibition video tours
Join, Sally Barnett, Morag Stuart and Amanda Sheridan on a video tour of the Young Open 2020 exhibition. In parts 1 to 4 we look at all the prize winners and the highly commended artists.