Open the results of The International Poster Competition 2021 – Imagine Your Future Planet
Відкрити результати Міжнародного Конкурсу Плакатів 2021 – Imagine Your Future Planet

The Chernobyl Relief Foundation

For nearly three decades The Chernobyl Relief Foundation in the UK (CRF), a charity registered in England and Wales (Charity Number 1044411), has been raising awareness of Chernobyl, sponsoring health projects for children in Ukraine who are still affected by and living through the aftermath of Chernobyl. CRF has initiated a number of intercultural projects aiming to encourage and educate the charity-minded young activists.

This year CRF is teaming up with the Educational-aesthetic complex “Art School” in Kherson and Department of Culture of Kherson City Council, Ukraine, and invites schools, youth groups and talented young individuals to enter The International Poster Competition 2021 – Imagine Your Future Planet (IYFP). This competition commemorates the 35th anniversary of Chernobyl, the world’s worst nuclear disaster which happened on 26th April 1986 in Ukraine. Through art and creativity, the competition gives young people the chance to raise awareness of the catastrophic consequences of manmade disasters and to share their vision of a safe future for our planet.


Baroness Caroline Cox

Baroness Caroline Cox
caroline.cox@hart-uk.org

19 January 2021

Dear Competitor,
I am delighted formally to invite you to participate in the Imagine Your Future Planet International Poster Competition.
The competition is organised by The Chernobyl Relief Foundation in the UK. This British charity raises awareness of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and sponsors health projects for children in Ukraine who are still affected by the aftermath of Chernobyl.
I believe that showing you care about the planet and raising awareness of the dangers of manmade disasters is more important than ever before. Therefore, I encourage you to enter this poster competition and create your very own vision of a safe future for our planet.
This creative competition is an exciting opportunity for any young person aged 10-16 years to engage with the humanitarian and environmental issues facing our world today.
On behalf of everyone at The Chernobyl Relief Foundation in the UK, I would like to take this opportunity to wish you the very best of luck. We are greatly looking forward to finding out how you Imagine Your Future Planet!
With very best wishes,
Baroness Caroline Cox
The Baroness Cox.
Independent Member of the House of Lords
Trustee of the Chernobyl Relief Foundation in the UK


The Competition Rules

  • Competition is open for entries on the 1st of March 2021
  • Competition closes for entries on the 31st of March 2021
  • The competition theme is Imagine Your Future Planet
  • Participants are free to interpret the competition theme as they wish, but submissions must reflect a vision of a safe future for our planet
  • The competition is open to students who will be 10-16 years of age on March 31, 2021
  • Artwork will be judged in two age categories: 10-12 and 13-16 years old
  • Only one entry per individual and each entry must be the work of only one person
  • Judging criteria: creative interpretation of the theme, originality, artistic skill and technique
  • Artwork must be the individual’s original creation. Duplications are not accepted. No templates may be used
  • The artwork must be vertical (portrait) in orientation, of any size
  • All mediums are accepted including, but not limited to, oil, water colour, pastels, chalk , pen and pencil, charcoal, acrylics, Computer Generated Graphics
  • Entrants will need to photograph or scan their work and upload it to the competition website. When taking a photo of your artwork to send to us, please make sure you use natural lighting. Dark or unnatural light can result in distortion of image or colour
  • 3D entries will not be accepted

Entries not meeting the rules and conditions listed above will be disqualified

To Enter

A photo of the artwork must be submitted online accompanied by the entry E-form on web-page.
An image of the artwork is to be submitted in a digital format: PNG, or JPG/JPEG.
If your submission makes the shortlist, we’ll be in touch with further details after the competition closes.

The Prizes

The panel of the international judges will assess the entries and shortlist 35 artworks from each age category, from which one winner and two runners-up will be selected.

Two winners (one from each age group) will receive the art gifts worth £50 each, 4 runners-up (two from each age group) will receive art gifts worth £25 each.

All shortlisted artworks including the winners will receive merit certificates and will be permanently displayed on the Event page of the CRF website and Facebook as well as on websites of the partners and sponsors involved (the list of websites to be confirmed).

Note: The sponsors and judges might award special prizes. Special prizes, if any, are to be confirmed on the competition website.

Terms and Conditions of the Competition:

  • By submitting an entry, you agree to be legally bound by the Rules and these Terms and Conditions
  • We must receive entries for the competition by midnight on Wednesday the 31st of March 2021, UK time
  • Any entry which is late, incomplete or inappropriate will be deemed invalid
  • If shortlisted, no postage is required
  • The judges’ decisions shall be final. No correspondence regarding the results will be entered into
  • The prizes will be sent to the winners and runners-up by post on organisers’ expenses.The prize is non-exchangeable, non-transferable and no cash alternative is offered. The organisers reserve the right to replace the prize with an alternative prize of equal or higher value if necessary
  • Applicants under 16 must get consent from their parent(s) or legal guardian(s) before entering the competition. By entering the competition they agree to the Rules and Conditions
  • The winning artworks and winners’ names will be published on the competition website and national / international websites chosen by organisers
  • By submitting an entry, an entrant agrees that the organisers may use the material for any purpose including, but not limited to, fundraising, marketing, publicity, advertising and presentations
  • The winners may be required to participate in publicity related to the competition which may include the publication of their name and photograph in any media. You agree that your personal data may be used for this purpose
  • Organisers will not accept responsibility for late, lost, misdirected or ineligible entries
  • Entries will not be acknowledged or returned
  • Images of The International Poster Competition 2021 – Imagine Your Future Planet (IYFP) cannot be used without written permission from CRF before the competition closure
  • CRF reserves the right to change Terms and Conditions and may cancel the competition without notice
  • The competition is void where prohibited, taxed or restricted by law

The Competition Judges’ Greetings

Inge Borg Scott, Fellow of the Royal Society, artist, UK

www.ingeborgscott.com
“Inge Borg Scott is the first artist within living memory, who had been given the privilege of holding an exhibition of her recent work at Burlington House (The Royal Academy, London).” https://pressreleases.responsesource.com/news/51667/artist-inge-borg-scott-exhibits-at-the-royal-academy/
She is an elected member to the Paris Salon, and an Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London, an Elected Artist Member and Chairperson of the Artists’ Committee, the Dover Street Art Club, Mayfair, London, where she also holds the positions of a member of the selection committees and the Charitable Trust of the Dover Street Arts Club.

“Dear Artists
I am delighted to have been given the opportunity to welcome you to submit your artwork for this competition. Art work is a wonderful way of communication without words; it crosses all borders and is completely international. So I look forward to your entries very very much. As well as drawing I like to paint with oil paint and love to experiment with all these wonderful pigments. Many years ago my younger brother asked me why I was drawing flowers. My answer was and is that they will never wilt and dye. You have the power as an artist to immortalise anything you choose. I like to take a sunflower seed, immerse it in water, see it swell and grow into a plant and into a giant of a vivid flowers, when the seeds are harvested they can be used as the start for next years crop. You can eat the seeds and share them with the birds and wild life, painting these is the greatest fun.
Many artists have painted these before. Another interesting thing is to paint wild flowers from all parts of the world. The world is just full of lovely things to draw and paint and I hope you will make it your lifelong pleasure.
I wish you much success and great pleasure.”

Inge Borg Scott
Vladimir Tverdokhlebov, artist, Kazakhstan

www.tverdokhlebovsgallery.com
Vladimir is an Honoured Artist of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Board Member for the Public Committee for the Kazakhstan National Awards in Arts since 2009, Member of the Union of Artists of Russia and Kazakhstan since 1970, Graduate from the State Academy of Art and Industrial Design named after V.Mukhina (now returned its name after its founder Baron Steiglitz) in St. Peterburg in 1967. Vladimir is an author, lead artist, and head of design of many signature public art complexes in the country.

“Dear participants!
Welcome to the Imagine Your Future Planet international poster competition! Being an artist-monumentalist, as we were called in Socialist states, I specialised in public art and have created many massive murals, mosaics and sculptures. During my student years and in the beginning of my career I designed over a hundred posters, including those on environmental issues, that were published and placed in schools, hospitals and workplaces. Some of my posters gained me first prizes in the international poster competitions. Working on the posters as a young artist made me study the subject in detail and consider the audience. I learned how to deliver the message to people in clear, approachable, attractive and creative manner. This skill helped me through my entire future career.
And I wish you to develop such skills too!”

Vladimir Tverdokhlebov

Anara Forrester, Art researcher, UK

www.linkedin.com/in/anara-forrester

“Dear participants!
Hello and thank you for taking part in the poster competition on such an important topic for our planet!
I have been solving youth and environmental issues in different parts of the world for over 25 years and often and effectively use poster art to highlight and raise awareness to important topics. For instance, I have no doubt that the posters Prevent Water Pollution and Each Tree is Matter placed in schools, parks, agricultural facilities and other public spaces influenced local communities to pay more attention to these problems and impacted on better use of nature in the areas where it was particularly important in Central Asia, Nepal, Turkey and Azerbaijan.
I wish you have fun! I am sure that you will enrich yourself with new knowledge and skills in the process.”

Anara Forrester
Yuriy Nagulko, artist, Ukraine

www.nagulko.com
Yuriy has held 52 personal exhibitions in Kyiv, Odessa, Paris, New York, Strasbourg, and Miami. His artworks are placed in museums and private collections across the world. His art publications, including art books, calendars and catalogues are sold in many countries. In 2008, he was awarded “Honoured Artist of Ukraine”.

“Congratulations to everyone who made the decision to join this wonderful project, which encourages thinking about the role of the nuclear technology in our lives, something that is neither easy nor straightforward.
At present I’m an artist, but in the past I was the president of a company that had been building nuclear power stations.
My previous experience makes me aware of advantages and disadvantages of nuclear energy. Mankind can and should use a safe atom to its benefit, but we should not experiment with technology if we are not sure that it’s safe. No one wants a Chernobyl tragedy to happen again. I hope that the thoughts and actions of the younger generation will promote security and peace, especially in the energy sphere. Artists are endowed by nature with a special intuition as creators of the unknown; they must carry love for the world into the human consciousness. They feel, hear, and see more. They are able to warn about the danger, unpredictability and the fatality of risky experiments, and let the lessons of the past change our future for the better.”
Yuriy Nagulko
Anthony Spira, Director of Milton Keynes Gallery, UK

www.mkgallery.org
Anthony Spira is an art historian and curator, the Director of MK Gallery, Milton Keynes. He worked previously at the Jeu de Paume, Paris and Whitechapel Gallery, London. His priority in Milton Keynes has been to develop a new gallery building with expanded exhibitions and learning spaces, a cinema, café and shop, and to create a ‘living room for the city’. He sits on the board of trustees of Pagrav, a South Asian dance company, and Action Space, an organisation that supports artists with learning disabilities.
Yulia Slipich, Director of “Art School”, Kherson, Ukraine

www.art-school.ks.ua
Children’s Art School of Kherson City Council was founded in 1980 as an out-of-school educational institution for gifted children and adolescents. Over the years, the school has become an educational and aesthetic complex “Art School” – a unique educational centre that implements the principles of continuity of education in the field of fine arts and individual creative approach to art education of children and youth with a focus on their profession. The staff of the complex was awarded the Diploma of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the Diploma of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for creating an attractive international image of Ukraine. Member of the International Art Consortium (Houston, Texas, USA).

“Dear friends!
Today humanity is looking for ways to preserve our planet and its resources for the future generations. And this activity includes various areas of our life from science to art. A huge number of all kinds of events are held, including contests of fine arts. We are very happy that you are interested in the problem of a safe future and take part in the International poster competition Imagine Your Future Planet. Your opinion is very valuable to us, because you are the future. Through your observation, reflection, imagination and skill, you will help us see our dream planet. We wish you good luck, inspiration and victory in the competition.”

Yulia Slipich
Robert Rusin, artist, poster designer, UK

www.mkfive.co.uk
Robert’s works have been the background for the Olympic torch relay, decorated offices, public spaces, and private homes all over the world. He has created art posters for international celebrities such as Lady Gaga. Robert’s designs can be seen on all continents and across different cultures.

“In the past I have been involved with CRF projects and admire their amazing efforts in making a difference. Welcome to the CRF new project: Imagine Your Future Planet! I believe that art and design make the world a better place. You create because you want it and not because you have to. Arts speak without words, posters just shout!”

Robert Rusin
Nataliya Zozulya, artist, UK

www.nataliyazozulya.com
Nataliya Zozulya is a Ukrainian painter who is resident in both Kyiv and London. She trained at the Ukrainian National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture where she was subsequently a Senior Lecturer and is currently Associate Professor in Painting.
During her professional career as an artist, Nataliya held numerous successful solo and group shows in London, Moscow, Manila, Ankara, Istanbul, Magdeburg, Kiev and her painting can be found in private collections internationally. In London she is a member of Richmond Art Society, The Fountain Gallery Artists Association, local Art group KAOS. She has also enjoyed a thriving academic career in Ukraine, working as Assistant Professor at the Fine Art department of her alma mater.

“Dear Participants!
Congratulations on your decision to take part in the Imagine Your Future Planet 2021 International Poster Competition!
Back on the 26th of April 1986 I was an eight months pregnant diploma year student, peacefully working on my canvas in the studio of Kiev State Fine Arts Institute ( now National Academy Of Fine Arts And Architecture). In a few hours my life was changed and it would make an impact on my and my then daughter’s life forever. Chernobyl happened…
I was sent to Moscow and was living there with a newborn baby girl for a half year without my family as my parents and husband were involved in dealing with the Chernobyl disaster.
I wish that all humanity would live in a manmade disaster free world, with sustainable energy sources and a safe planet for all its habitants. Your voice, your small contribution – your artwork for the Imagine Your Future Planet 2021 International Poster Competition would make one step close to this to happen.”

Nataliya Zozulya
Katya Belaia-Selzer, paintings conservator, UK

www.katyarestoration.com

“Dear fellow artist, I am sending you my good wishes and encouragement and I am looking forward to seeing your creations. As a painting conservator-restorer it is my job to preserve artworks for the use and enjoyment of future generations. I always think about the pros and cons of alternative materials and energy sources, their usefulness and ethics. Having previously supported the activities of CRF, it is my pleasure to be a judge and to be involved in its continued cause and in the exciting discussion of the theme on safe usage of energy for our planet.”

Katya Belaia-Selzer
Julia Karmo, Journalist, Film Producer and Director, Berlin, Germany

www.juliakarmo.com
Julia is a journalist, filmmaker and digital content strategist with more than 15 years of creative storytelling experience for global media companies, international organisations, universities, and start-ups. She is producer/director on an hour-long documentary The Real Chernobyl for Sky Atlantic and Sky News shot in Chernobyl exclusion zone and based on interviews with people who lived through the world’s worst nuclear disaster. Julia is director and executive producer for a series Six ‘Impossible’ Ideas on migration with LSE’s top academic experts. She is a winner of the EU’s inaugural Migration Media award, received multiple international media citations, generated social engagement and great SEO. She has co-founded Migration Matters, a non-profit project that produces award-winning short-form video masterclasses with world’s leading academics on migration, identity, nationalism and refugee rights.

“Dear young artists!
Many people around the world agree that we, humans, need to radically rethink how we do many things if we want to save the planet and reduce human suffering. And we really do! We need to rethink how we run our economies, how we relate to nature, and how we produce and use our energy. And to do this we need to stretch our imaginations to look beyond the systems we have built to run our lives. We need to imagine new and better futures. Futures that will inspire everyone to work towards building them! And here is where you come in. We need your visions of the better, safer, cleaner, kinder future, so people get inspired to create change. What is yours? What future planet are you imagining? How would you radically transform the world?
Join the competition!”

Julia Karmo
Kate Harper, Head of Faculty for Creative Technology, Head of Art, Lord Grey Academy, Milton Keynes, UK

www.lordgrey.org.uk

“Hello and well done to you all for taking part in this competition. This year is the 35th Anniversary of Chernobyl, and I am pleased this competition raises young people’s awareness of this horrific nuclear disaster. We have to learn from our past, and I am looking forward to seeing how you depict your vision of the possible future of our planet. As a teacher, everyday, I am amazed by what my students create. I work with pupils from year 7 to year 13, and I believe my job is to guide pupils to find their own visual language, to allow young people to communicate through their Art. I am delighted to be a judge, to see how you communicate your ideas.
Art is created through the process of making mistakes and learning from them. We must not forget the mistakes made, but they must inform our journey into the future. We must learn from our past. I am looking forward to seeing your personal viewpoints and how you express your future world.”

Kate Harper
Stewart Bailey, Technology Visionary, UK

www.virtualviewing.co.uk

“Welcome everyone to The Imagine Your Future Planet, International Poster Competition 2021! This is an exciting competition marking the anniversary of one of the world’s tragedies. I wish you well and am looking forward to seeing the entries. Virtual Viewing and I have supported the Chernobyl Relief Foundation for what must be over a decade now, I value the work Tatiana and the team achieves and am immensely proud of the positive impact they have on so many lives.
It’s my honour to be a judge and I look forward to seeing how each one of the entrants tries to capture the huge range of emotions that this anniversary reminds us of.
As I have travelled the world, I have been privileged to see many great things, so when something as terrible as the explosion in Chernobyl happens it reminds me of how lucky so many of us are with our healthy lives and wonderful families, all hopefully untouched by the early deaths and long-term health problems that the victims of Chernobyl live with day in day out, it humbles me.
Good luck to everyone!”

Stewart Bailey
Temenuga Hristova, artist, art teacher, Chairwoman of Union of Bulgarian Artists – branch of Shumen, Bulgaria

Temenuga Hristova is a visual artist from Shumen, Bulgaria. She has worked in the fields of painting, printmaking and art education. She has participated in selected international exhibitions in Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania, Hungary, Turkey, Czech Republic, Italy, France, Armenia, Lithuania, Russia, Egypt, Morocco, China, USA, Canada, Australia, Argentina and Mexico. She is a member of the Union of Bulgarian artists, Graphic section and International Association of Art, UNESCO. She has been an active art educator, conducting art workshops around the globe. She has been a judge on many regional, national and international art competitions for children and young people. In 2020 she was granted with the Special Award in the National conference about Ecological education in Bulgaria.

“Dear young artists, I hope you will truly challenge yourselves by participating in this incredible competition. I suppose you have heard many stories about Chernobyl, perhaps personal stories of your parents and your older relatives and friends so real and freaky, aren’t they? Now you have the possibility to create your own story, reflecting on the past experience, pour out your emotions and reflections of your present perception and leave your personal message for the future. Be creative and brave, be respectful, be confident! You have the most miraculous tool, called ART! Enjoy it, empower it and be a creator of your own unique story!
It has been always a pleasure to me working with young people through arts and creation. Being part of the judging team is an honour and great responsibility for me. Supporting young people in their personal development is also my life mission. Competitions, bigger or smaller ones play a significant role in our lives – they help us go an extra mile for achieving our dreams, challenge ourselves and expand our limits. I thoroughly enjoy being part of that process, full of creativity and fresh vibes. And last, but not least, it is so much fun.”

Temenuga Hristova
Halyna Rudyk, artist, Ukraine

At age 16 Halyna donated her 130 drawings to The Chernobyl Relief Foundation in the UK. Her artworks were exhibited at CRF charity fundraising events in London, Milton Keynes, Bognor Regis, and Arundel Castle, UK. She has held a number of personal exhibitions in Frankfurt am Main, Possev, Germany. She is a self-taught artist. She lives and works in Donetsk, Ukraine.
Tatiana Pereverzeva-Birch, Project Managing Trustee, CRF, UK

www.chernobylrelief.com
www.facebook.com/chernobylrelief
Originally from Donetsk, Ukraine, Tatiana worked previously as a senior lecturer at Donetsk National University and DonNUET. She represented international business companies and coordinated business and charity projects in Finland, Cyprus, America, Ukraine, and Russia. She organised one of the first Lions Clubs International in Ukraine “Donetsk- Universal”, and became a Charter President, going on to initiate international charity projects in Ukraine and UK.
She moved to the UK in 1998, and became a Trustee of the CRF, and had initiated and implemented nearly a hundred of charity projects to support Chernobyl children. Tatiana has been honoured with a number of international and state awards for her outstanding achievements in voluntary activities. Tatiana is the initiator and key co-organiser of Imagine Your Future Planet 2021, International Poster Competition.

“Dear Artist,
I thank you for joining this exciting competition. I have visited Chernobyl hospitals in Ukraine and saw how children were suffering and losing their health and lives because of the ‘invisible death’ as they call radiation. People are still paying with their lives for the terrible consequences of man-made errors at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Now we understand more what the “invisible enemy” means because we have COVID globally. The whole world has been uniting against it, and we will win! In the same way, we need to unite our efforts to make our planet safe using the safe energy. Let’s start thinking! You, one and all, are to build the future planet to live on! Let’s Imagine Your Future Planet!”

Tatiana Pereverzeva-Birch

Organisers

  • The Chernobyl Relief Foundation in the UK (CRF)

    Patron – Inge Borg Scott, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)
    Trustees:
    Embassy of Ukraine to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, a Corporate Member of the Trustee Board
    The Right Honourable The Baroness Cox, of Queensbury, Member of House of Lords of the United Kingdom
    Captain Christopher W Pile Royal Navy-Chairman,
    Tatiana Pereverzeva-Birch – Project Managing Trustee
    Katrina Mills – Treasurer
    www.chernobylrelief.com
    www.facebook.com/chernobylrelief
  • Department of Culture of Kherson City Council, Kherson, Ukraine

    vul.Chervonostudentska 7,
    Kherson, Ukraine
    73003
  • The Educational-aesthetic complex “Art School”, Kherson, Ukraine

    Yulia Slipich, Director
    vul.Nebesnoj Sotni, 21
    Kherson, Ukraine
    73003
    www.art-school.ks.ua

Contact email

ImagineYourFuturePlanet@gmail.com

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