Art2Words 2023
The Art2Words Writing Prize is an annual writing competition at The Friends’ School. Founded in 1887, The Friends’ School, an independent, coeducational day and boarding school located in the heart of Hobart, Tasmania, is the largest Quaker School in the world (and the only Quaker School in Australia), offering education programs from early learning through to Year 12. Established in 2020, the Art2Words Writing Prize is based on the ancient Greek practice of ekphrasis (responding to an artwork in words) and involves students writing either a short story or poem in response to student artwork. The artwork which is the inspiration for the creative writing is that of the winner of the school's Visual Arts Prize of the previous year. The Visual Arts Prize is an annual award, granted to a senior art student for their consistently exceptional approach to their practice, rigour of research and ideation, complexity and sophistication of the ideas and issues they explore, and the professional quality of their exhibited works.
Art2Words 2023

Beauty in destruction

by Ruby Ball
14 Nov 2023

My mothers world is different to mine She retold stories of how she would stay in the sun Listen to the sounds of wildlife She made the Earth sound so special My mother told me about the smell of freshly cut grass Walking down the harsh gravel road...

Art2Words 2023

Janus-Faced Love

by Saanvi Sinha
14 Nov 2023

Chapter 1: Two Frightened Children The girls watched A beast arouse Their mother She was gone now Kindness and cruelty Janus-faced love A penchant for leaving them Frightened and repentant Guilt and helplessness Sharp claws swiping at them They...

Art2Words 2023

Secondary Poetry Winner: The Voice of the Blackberry

by Alice Evans
14 Nov 2023

Amongst the flora, wild and tangled, Immersed in its beauty, Blinded by its beauty, A growling voice calls my name, Struggling, lunging to escape the reality, Seiged by a wave, Gasping for one final breath, Suffocated in the darkness, Rising bubbles...

Art2Words 2023

Olim

by Bahzi Nicholas
14 Nov 2023

Flora reached up and hauled down the big book, Olim. She traced her fingertips lightly over the title, careful not to rip the fragile royal red covering. Handwritten and in Latin, Flora could not read even the first word. But that is not what she...

Art2Words 2023

Secondary Story Winner: Spotlights and Lasers

by Rowan Walker
14 Nov 2023

To Psyche, there was nothing worse than the eyes of people on the street. To her they felt like lasers on her skin. She felt like she was subjected to them no matter where she was or what she was doing. They were menacing, greedy, and everything...

Art2Words 2023

The Front Door

by Amelia Cooper
14 Nov 2023

I have seen many things. Many people. Many stories. I have held many hands; some gentle, some enraged. Some are riddled with sweat. Regardless, I hold them all. I have to. Bound to this wooden frame, I have nowhere to go, nothing to do; oh, but so...

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