THE 2020 PRIZE "DISABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT" - Submitted works

DISABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
 
Taking inspiration from Ricky Berwick’s quote, 'Disability is not inability'. the drawing was made with a disabled person. It’s a landscape where there is a comparison between polluted environment landscape and a natural one. 
 
Papier-mâché and tempera

The work illustrates a boy in a wheelchair protected by a tree. The disabled person is exposed to a rain of pollutants of various kinds, produced by man's uncivilized behavior. The environment, represented as a big tree, protects the boy from this rain which would make him more exposed and more fra...

The earth is suffering his right leg is stump cut by man, her left leg tries to hold but is giving way covered by oil towers and with drawn over political borders like tattoos with oil. Her heel stuck a Derrick tower with Achilles alongside other towers put as stigmata.
Paper, pen and pencil, cm 3...

The path to reach an important objective is often fraught with difficulties. For some of us, however, even a simple gesture can be an insurmountable obstacle.The daisy, a common flower, is a metaphor for an action that is apparently easy to perform whereas the spiral staircase represents every singl...

Every man in his physical structure is different, every man in his spirituality is different, all men are abnormal in their own way. All men are often in conflict with each other and with the environment, because nature, as Leopardi said, is a stepmother. The struggle for survival is daily and men m...

WANNA REACH THE TOP
 
If I wanna see the beautiful landscapes that my city offers I’d have to climb several stairs, but what if I couldn’t? I identified myself in a person who lives in wheelchair or with crutches and I took photographs through his eyes.
An architectural barrier or just some st...

AN INVISIBLE OCEAN
I chose to draw a blind woman who tears a polluted ocean, in order to represent the malaise of the planet that is reflected on men, like a big wave that is capable of destructive acts. Blindness, in this case, represents man's inability to see the problems facing the Earth, whic...

DISABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
This manifesto aims to represent the relationship that exists between people, who tend to see only the defects in others and tend to move away from them. Not understanding that in reality there aren’t differences, because everyone has a heart, which makes us feel emo...

WHERE COULD I GO?
 
One of the biggest difficulties that a disabled person can meet up in a town is that of accessibility: our urban centers are not always able to adapt to the needs of disabled people. I wanted to represent the map of a metropolitan map of Copenhagen perfectly adapted to the in...

DISABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
 
I drew a positive and natural environment, very clean too, where people lives happily, becoming also positive and able to receive and include any type of person.

DISABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
 
My artwork symbolizes life.The narrow path at the bottom right indicates that life isn't an easy adventure,but at the end of the adventure, you will find happiness in your life, a colorful rainbow.The little girl is painting to indicate that we shape our future. ...

The head of an elf, with human features out of common stereotypes, a perfect creature who lives and acts in nature, in its respect and help; because with nature it is, and must be, a give-take. Disabilities, visible or invisible, when you accept your own or others' shortcomings, become special abili...

Stay alone like the tree live in brotherhood like the forest.
 
For this 12th year of the Eleanor Worthington Prize the topic of which is DISABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT we have decided to focus our attention on global warming. During the collective brain storming which was carried out by the c...

HIDDEN DISABILITIES
“There are people with evident disabilities among many people with invisible disabilities” Ezio Bosso
In the artwork is represented a group of faces that symbolize our social environment.
In this environment the yellow faces have physical deficiencies (eye, ear and mouth) t...

DISABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
 
In my painting, I portrayed a fetus that has umbilical cord choking by a plastic bag, to demostrate how the pollution has effects on births. 
 
Watercolor and watercolor pencils.

DISABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
 
In my drawing, I portrayed a little girl with her hands on her face to avoid  breathing polluted air. In fact, the little girl is surrounded by an industrial environment with factory fumes and cranes.

THIS IS WHAT WE ARE
 
This manifesto aims to represent the relationship that exists between people, who tend to see only the defects in others and tend to move away from them. Not understanding that in reality there aren’t differences, because everyone has a heart, which makes us feel emotions a...

DISABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
In the poster I represented a man standing and holding out the gardenia
to the disabled person who is next to him. Gardenia is a symbol of hope and solidarity,
the message I want to give through the flower is that non-disabled people should be
sympathetic to th...

WE ALSO EXIST, DO NOT EXCLUDE US
In the poster I inserted a pedestrian crossing road sign in red with the addition of the silhouette of the disabled person because when you are on the street there are signs that exclude people with disabilities, underneath I inserted the pedestrian crossing in blu...

DISABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
“Lavoisier” is a poster that I created with the purpose of sensitizing people on a subject that is unknown to may, which is the creation of prosthesis throught recycled plastic.
This discovery also assents a meaningful decrease of the price of the prosthesis, so th...

UNDER WATER
"We can make the difference!" This phrase binds all our work together. We are the ones who can actively change the world, through small gestures. By immersing in the world of children’s animation, the boys with the help of their companions were able to focus on what the project was and...

AROUND THE WORLD
 
The drawing represents the idea of a disabled person to travel the planet to collect abandoned materials that cause pollution, and endanger the balance of the Earth. The design thus aims to give a proactive message to everyone, so that the abandonment of various garbage, on th...

DISABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
 
My artwork is divided into two parts: on the left side, there is a gray and cloudy sky and there are stones on the road; on the right side, there is sunlight and there are flowers on the road. At the centre, the girl in wheelchair has just broken the red ribbon a...

DISABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
A modular composition has been created, which indicated a subject repeated several times giving asense of equality. The modular composition was inserted inside a poster (70x100) and used as a background for the silhouette of a child in the foreground, the accompanin...

Disabilità e Ambiente
 
L’uomo cieco ricorda i bei momenti in cui stava in mezzo alla Natura attraverso le sensazioni che gli sono rimaste: l’udito, il tatto e l’olfatto. Grazie alle informazioni che ricava da queste, nella sua mente vengono ricostruite le immagini ormai perdute dei suoi ricordi...

DISABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
 
For this theme I chose to represent pollution. I wanted to represent this theme by centralizing a circumcible little girl from an environment now polluted. 
The look of the little girl seems to be, sad, because looking at the reality note as everything happens ...

DISABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
 
My artwork represents a smiling paraplegic girl lost in her thoughts who plays with a friend in a peaceful world. 
 
Watercolor and crayons

DISABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
The lower hand has the meaning of letting go and not facing the difficulties, the upper hand instead going forward despite the difficulties of the child trying a tariff for things like other children. 
Colored with watercolors

FREEDOM
This painting represents a disabled person with a paralysis in the lower limbs called "paraplegia": he tries to escape from his disability with the strength of his arms. The obstacles are represented by the wheelchair spokes which, for him, are limitations in daily life.
Illustration, oi...

DISABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Air pollution causes climate change and environmental disasters such as strong gust of wind and flooding. Their consequences can make it difficult, for a disabled person, the evacuation or the performance of daily activities.
 
Illustration watercolour

The work represents the condition of disability inserted in the environmental context. A girl in a wheelchair is depicted, on which plastic bags filled with helium are fixed, aimed at the "physical" flight which is subordinate to the moral one. Even if the girl is "disabled" in the eyes of society, ...

NO WORDS
 
Many times we happen to hear words that hurt us.
With this work, I would like to make people understand that we must pay attention to words
that they say, within a social environment because they can hurt and more than any other
thing. For this reason, it is sometimes better to ...

DETACHMENT/ESCAPE
 
Emotional constriction can block a person when he tries to express himself and can arise from the difficulty of not being able to have a free dialogue, relating to the outside world. This inability to manage emotions can produce a strong insecurity that leads to isolation, in...

Representation of an anonymous little man without identity, nailed hooked to the ground representing disability as one of the problems that prevents mobility in the most fortunate cases, in fact for people who have difficulties of apprehension or more simply have physical difficulties the problem is...

FOR A WORSE FUTURE
At this rate, humanity will have to go out with an anti-gas mask to avoid the serious diseases caused by atmospheric and bacteriological pollution that undermine our body;
the serious consequences can cause disability.
An anti-gas mask was represented, with "cheerful" colors...

PASSERS BY
 
Passers By shows the superficial side of those who don’t care about others, creating a grey and averse environment for the ones who’ve got less possibilities. The painting's a cry of pain of those who are rejected for their problems and illnesses.The purpose of the painting's to raise...

DISABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
 
The simplicity of a child can be the greatest form of love, able to break down all barriers ( see “Ponyo on the cliffs” dby Myazaki- Ghibli). 
 
Colored pencils and black marker 0,4.

THE FREEDOM TO FLY
 
Elisabeth, a wheelchair-bound girl, lives in a country house with her mother. During a rainy day, while Elisabeth is following the news, the unexpected light of the sunset attracts her attention... At that moment a transformation takes place, mother and daughter will understan...

Project 1
WHAT CAN I DO?
The proposal is to revisit the signs that we find in many buildings equipped with a lift. Seen by a person in a wheelchair or on crutches, who would be in difficulty not knowing how to do it. These are actions that are taken for granted, but it is not thought that for so...

DISABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
My work was made using a mixed technique on a 23x32 paper support.                                                 It represents a landscape that helps a disabled person (for example the tree becomes a ramp). The sloga...

THE THIRST OF THE EARTH
 
The drawing represents the destruction of the planet by man. In the foreground is clearly the Earth drained by the hand of man, unaware of what it is causing. The planet also represents the head of a clearly disabled individual, a metaphor to indicate that this ruin end...

WHAT WORLD ARE WE BUILDING
In the poster, a disabled person with a wheelchair shows the polluted earth causing imbalances in the ecosystem; above there are buildings that pollute the air with smoke, below there is water polluted by landfills, the background is yellow and the title is Helvetica fon...

DISABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

I invite you to create an environment in which the person with disabilities can still represent his life.

Assembly of photographic paper with acrylic tempera intervention.

DISABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

In my artwork, I dealt with the topic of schizophrenia and how a person who suffers for it could find hard to face daily life, such as going to work. I portrayed a schizophrenic person and his colleagues in their office. 
The point of view is of the schizophreni...

DISABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT THE TREE OF LIFE 
 
The work represents the tree of life, the symbol of the source from which every man
comes. The structure highlights strong roots, a vital and powerful trunk, and finally a
flourishing colored crown.
The quote "NEVER GIVE UP" incites all pe...

DISABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
For this project I created a typographic visual, using a phrase written by Robert Hensel and I played on the various positions of the words by inserting a wheelchair on the right side undertone, while for the background I used a light green color that symbolizes posi...

NO DISTINCTIONS
The two subjects have the same rights.  The main subject of the poster is the outline of a person with a disability, inside which the person without disability is depicted.  The color used for the poster is blue, a color associated with disability, a contrast from the white color t...

DISABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
 
My artwork represents a blind girl who discovers a parallel world in a book. It is a colorful world with playful shapes that make her feel at ease. The eye at the centre of the drawing is her eye which continues to see a colorful life despite the difficulties.
...

MANDALA FOR ALL: BETWEEN NATURE, GEOMETRY AND DISABILITY
 
The MANDALA represents for the hindus and buddhist cultures the cosmos and all that belongs to it, including therefore man, the fauna and flora. And it is in the latter that the geometry represented in the mandalas is more present, speci...

HUMANITY AND ENVIRONMENT: ONE THING
 
The environment constitutes exchanges of resources that allow development in a similar way to what happens among humans who help each other. For the good of the planet, it is necessary to recycle excess materials with the consequent possibility of protecting...

STAND OUT
 
Following the crowd stifles our creativity and prevents us from being ourselves. We must not be afraid to show what we are, everyone is different and unique, that’s why... “it takes all sorts to make the world”

Disability and the environment
To represent the theme “Disability and the environment” I wanted to make this print with the technique etching, coloured with watercolors. The work represents a child disabled person who catches a fallen leaf from the tree that is also “disabled” because of environme...

The short film tries to lead the observer into the dimension of the absence of sound, proper to the otherwise hearing impaired. The spectator almost adapts to this reality, until it breaks into the scene with a high-pitched sound that immediately restores its auditory dimension, thus highlighting th...

DISABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
 
Sometimes disability can be lived in the daily life, but also in the nature and in the surrounding environment. Even a silly obstacle, for example a tree, can get things harder and not superabile by yourself.

A POLLUTED WORLD CAUSES DISABILITY
 
Global warming is characterized by an increase of the earth's average temperature and by violent atmospheric phenomena. It causes destruction, disease, disability and death, and it is mainly due to the air pollution and human activities.
 
Digital Poster

DISABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
In the drawing I wanted to represent what that isn’t just a disability, dyslexia. I decided to draw  the reading. A moment of pressure. The child is at the center of the drawing and the teacher is at his side, as is in the path of growth that is done during th...

OPPORTUNITY
 
I wanted to create a wooden tablet with raised elements that allow you to see through touch
the work transmitting sensations and emotions to anyone. Hence the phrase "OPPORTUNITY
EXISTS ". Often escapes the concept of what nature gives us and we take many things for granted, bu...

DISABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT 
Environmental Nuisance.
Melting the ice won't help us to stay closer