Studio: international art (8.1896)

National Competition: South Kensi7igton

cis Powell Stonelake (Bristol), is a most effective (Southampton), have won bronze medals, or high
and admirable composition. Modelled designs commendation from the judges. A large figure
based on the Iris (793), by Arthur Burt (South "modelled from a photograph" (462) is a most
Kensington), show some delicate and ingenious curious thing to encounter in these precincts, where
fancy, most charmingly carried out; a similar set one thought the camera was unknown. A design
(901) by Stanley Thorogood (South Kensington) for Lincrusta Walton in modelled relief (783), by
are also good, the treatment of a door with cir- G. M. Griffiths (Wolverhampton), and a somewhat
cular panel and hinges being especially happy, quaint bracket with figures of Highland pipers (382),
The modelled design for a piano front (6), by by Jessie MacGeoch (Birmingham), also deserve
Stanley N. Babb (Plymouth), which has been attention.

awarded a gold medal and six lines of hearty praise A design for a casket in gold and enamels (7)
in the examiners' report, is indeed a careful study by Agnes Kershaw (Sheffield) has won a gold
in the style of the Early Italian Renaissance, and medal, which it certainly deserves. Other works by
its panels of singing boys are
exquisitely modelled, yet one
doubts if its proportions are
those of the average pianoforte
to-day—it certainly seems at
least one-third too short for its
height. A figure in high-relief
by the same student (825) is
also most full of life and grace,
while his other works (789, 922,
923, and 924) well deserve the
honours he has reaped this year,
which are one gold, one silver,
and one bronze medal, with three
book-prizes. For modelling from
the life, gold medals are awarded
to: (1) Martha A. Onions (Bir-
mingham); (3) F. J. Clarke
(Queen's Road, Bristol); (9)
Mortimer J. Brown (South Ken-
sington) ; (10) W. J. Maclean
(South Kensington), and (11)
Albert Hopkins (West Brom-
wich). The same subject has
also secured silver medals for
George P. Fisher, John Conway
Blatchford, Ernest Board, Cecil
Fabian and Charles Pibworth
(all of Queen's Road Schools,
Bristol), Gwendoline Williams
(South Kensington), Albert
Hopkins (West Bromwich) in ad-
dition to his gold medal; while
others by Jane Twiss (South Ken-
sington), William Mears (Exeter),
Annie M. Taylor (Birmingham),
Alfred Watson (Birmingham),
Frank M. Andrews, Thomson
Siminson, and Alfred John Wat-
son (all three of Queen Road, design for illustration, "the pied piper of hamelin "
Bristol), and M. J. Brown by alice b. giles, Lambeth

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