Wild Warwick
What is Wild Warwick?
Wild Warwick was a new project for 2024/2025: a collaboration between the Energy and Sustainability Team and the School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures (SCAPVC). It aimed to promote wildlife and green spaces on campus. Our campus is home to a huge variety of wildlife and green spaces, yet many do not know that they exist, and we wanted to change this! There were two parts to Wild Warwick, both of which are now complete:
- A competition, which ran from Monday 14th October to Monday 2nd December 2024. We invited submissions of art, including photography, canvas, poetry, pottery and other forms of medium, which used the University's wildlife as inspiration. You can see all of the winning submissions below, including the 10 judges prizes.
- An exhibition, which took place in FAB Agora, from Monday 6th January noon to Friday 24th January 2025. This showcased the winning submissions, alongside information on species and habitats across campus. There were 'Wild events', such as a talk from the Warwickshire Mammal Group, which ran alongside the exhibition. You can watch the videos hereLink opens in a new window and hereLink opens in a new window to get an insight of what the exhibition was like!
The Winning Submissions
Mai Yuntian
Swans in the first snow
Xuefeng Xu
Snack Time
Harry Minchin
The Contemplating Heron
Matthew Scholand
Geese in the snow
Yurong Tian
Colourful Warwick
Karen Chamberlain
Flight and Remembrance
Enci Chen
Golden Hour in Fall
Ellen Ward
A trio of Ladybugs
Caleb Tan
A morning in the meadow
Seth Johnson
The pond
Luke Duncan
Octoplant
Paul Thompson
All Seasons Glory
Adele Reed
Grass by the slate
Daniel Nobrega Lima Rego
Birds of Sherbourne and Tocil
Geraldine Reidy
No mow May
Riola Tauro
Harmony in Nature's Palette
Sharon Butcher
Fairies?
Sarah Stevenson
Ink Cap
Lauren Nicholson
The Arts of Nature
Hilary Hopker
Rufus the campus rabbit
Raiha Browning - Warwick’s wildflowers
Heather Twomey -Fabulous Fungi
Jessica Barber
Colours in Crochet
Lizzie Buckingham
Ice skating swan
Isabel Andrews
Winter Geese
Holly Beaumont - Windmill Hill
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Nomisha Kurian - Autumn on Campus
Poem available hereLink opens in a new window.
Zoe Laryea - Lost on Campus, Found in Nature