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[Winner] Peter Davis • “Salford Lads Club” • which has been a brilliant recreational space for generations for young people of Salford and Manchester. 
[Runner up] Mike Beard • “Please mind the gap” • Personal space has never felt more important than during the Covid-19 pandemic. 
[Highly Commended] Elise • “Impressions” • Interpretation of new world space, four paintings from my social distancing series capturing our new interpretation of the word space. They are available as a set for sale, 40 x 50 cm, acrylic on canvas. 
[Highly Commended] Nick Vostermans • “ASBO (a simple bench, officer)” • Sculpture • Influenced by the designs of 1950’s telephone table/benches and the overt hostile architecture becoming more prevalent in our modern city spaces. ASBO offers the user/s the experience of having an object of beauty infused with the tactics of hostile architecture in the domestic setting. It asks whether we are willing to give up some of our own comfort in order to offer a comfort to another. 
[Highly Commended] Tricia • “No space between us” 
[Highly Commended] Sam Owen Hull • “B Tc/20” • Acrylic collage and embroidery on Canvas • My work explores the spaces in between, particularly in our increasingly polarised society. I’m interested in our need for borders and edges against our desire for freedom. I contrast the speed of painterly brushstrokes with the slowness of embroidery. My work also considers the space in each painting with layers and stitches on the surface, opaque and transparent areas of paint, and collaged paint itself. – Sam 
Debra Ingham • “Volcanic Space” • Inspired by the volcanos in Iceland.Oil Painting 
Debra Ingham • “Natures mindful space” 
Bill Tolly • “High Peak” • Acrylic and Watercolour on board 20 x 24cm 
Hayley Jeffers • “A sense of freedom” 
Although it looks a bit space in the sky like that wasn’t the intention. But rather make an image that creates a dreamy calm space. A sense of freedom. – Hayley 
Helen Mark • The piece is a quilted wall-hanging that is 75cmx65cm in size and made from cotton and linen fabric remnants. I made this hanging in January and February 2021, in the midst of the second national lockdown. The piece started with a series of drawings I made of the view I could see from my kitchen table, the place where I sit each day while I am working from home. I drew everything I could see, the view from my window of the garden and my neighbours houses and the shapes I could see inside: the window frame, the walls and objects in the room. I pieced the hanging together improvisationally, responding to and combining the interior and exterior shapes, colours and proportions of my everyday environment during lockdown. 
Jo Beggs • “Saturn” • saline solution etching 
Keisha Castello • “Liminal Space 1” • These works hold thinking around the ‘liminal space’ of art therapy which can be complex spaces that have the transformative potential for healing trauma. 
Keisha Castello • “Liminal Space 2″• These works hold thinking around the ‘liminal space’ of art therapy which can be complex spaces that have the transformative potential for healing trauma. 
Lynda Sterling • “In Space” • intervention 
Lynda Sterling • “Space in Space” • Installation 
Matthew Button • I had this photo envisioned in my head for a while before capturing it and to me it speaks a lot about the isolation I and many others were feeling during the various lockdowns. I think it is appropriate for the theme of “Space” because the subject in frame is seen alone in a blank space and with the theme of the photo being about how spaced apart and solitary we became from our friends and family during that time. I also captured this photo on medium format black and white film and this was actually one of my first experiments with analogue photography. 
Matthew Norman • “The seagull and the space” 
Penelope Nyau • “Cosmic” 
Peter Davis • “Be Strong, Northern Quarter” • painting of community and public space. 
Stacey Newman 
Tricia • “No Negative space” • pastel Drawing 
Vicki O’Connell • “Fluid art” • The use of acrylic ink and paint mixed with a pouring medium created the background space feel. With modelling paste and gold flakes creating an image of shooting stars 
Joe Lake Rees • “Blue Reina” 
Nerissa Cargill Thompson • “Pockets of nature: AP3” • Embellished recycled materials with hand & machine embroidery • Lockdown highlighted our need for open space. In urban areas, our city parks became our way to connect with nature when travel to the coast and the countryside were forbidden. This triptych is based on photos of tree trunks taken in a local park. These close ups resemble new landscapes photographed from space. 
Mike Beard • “Equality of space” • Photo • Despite their differences, three trees, three stones, and a lamppost have all been given equal space.
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