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Hillcrest High School students dominate art awards

&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;" alignright size-full wp-image-1435" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;schoolnewsnz&period;fastrackdev&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;04&sol;SND14-wk5-Art&lowbar;award&lowbar;winner1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"SND14-wk5-Art award winner1" style&equals;"margin&colon; 5px&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"302" &sol;>The winners for the 2015 secondary school art awards have been decided for another year with Hamilton&&num;8217&semi;s Hillcrest High School again dominating prizes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p> <&excl;--more--> <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Excellence in Art Competition was created specifically for senior secondary school students in the Waikato&comma; Coromandel and Newmarket in Auckland&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Two thousand dollars in cash prizes have been awarded with the top prize of &dollar;500 being won by Hillcrest High School&&num;8217&semi;s Emma Savage &lpar;entry right&rpar; with her school also receiving &dollar;500&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Second prize of &dollar;300 was won by Chelsea Lowther of Hamilton Christian School&comma; with the third prize of &dollar;200 going to Alanah Hanley&comma; also from Hillcrest High School&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The judges also awarded Honourable Mentions to Angie Zhou &lpar;Hillcrest High School&rpar;&comma; Harrison Forlong &lpar;Fraser High&rpar;&comma; Sarah Boyed &lpar;Epsom Girls Grammar&rpar; and Llenyd Price &lpar;Hillcrest High School&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The competition has been supported by Creative Waikato and has been run and sponsored by Paterson Burn Optometrists&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Senior Paterson Burn Optometrists partner Adrian Paterson says the standard of artwork being entered into the awards continues to impress&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We are pleased to be able to continue our support of the awards and to provide a creative forum for secondary school art students&period; The fact that the awards are so strongly supported is rewarding as a sponsor&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he says&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The competition judges were Leafa Wilson&comma; art curator from Waikato Museum&comma; and full-time artist Sante Cronje from Cambridge&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Emma Savage&&num;8217&semi;s win means the art awards have been won in consecutive years by Hillcrest High School&period;<br &sol;>All the art award paintings remain on display at the Creative Waikato offices in Alexandra Street in Hamilton&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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Rosie Clarke

Rosie is the managing editor here at Multimedia Pty Ltd, working across School News New Zealand and School News Australia. She has spent 10+ years in B2B journalism, and has spent some time over the last couple of years teaching as a sessional academic. Feel free to contact her at any time with editorial or magazine content enquiries.

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