Metro competition winners
The winners of ReCreate2, an award given to the designers who create the best artwork out of re-cycled copies of Metro, have been announced
The competition, now in its second year, is organised by Metro as a useful PR exercise, but also in part as a genuine attempt to encourage people to think more about re-cycling issues – something which is desperately needed as the freebie paper is all too often left to litter the Underground. And the results are impressive, with over 300 people entering the competition and many coming up with interesting and creative solutions to the problem. It shows that an interest in working with re-cycled materials is now becoming mainstream, with artists and designers attracted to it both for ethical and aesthetic reasons.
The competition is divided into two categories – art and design – with each winner getting £1000 prize and is judged by a panel which includes Cedar Lewisohn from Tate Modern and Sarah Johnson of (re)design. The winner of the design category was 15-year old Yuliya Krypo who made 1000 Origami Cranes, a long swirling dress made up of hundreds and hundreds of sheets of newspaper each folded into tiny birds. The second prize went to Oscar L’hermitte, from Central St Martins, for his 89 Stool. The fine art category was won by Tom Martin for his work Can’t See the Forest for the Trees and the runner-up was Mark Leonard from Newcastle College.
