Indyref Poster Competition
Here’s the long-list of entries for our poster competition in collaboration with the Scottish Independence Convention. If you are sharing these images (please do!), please credit the individual artist and @ScotIndConv.
In two weeks we’ll announce the shortlist to go on exhibition as decided by our judges panel: Elaine C Smith, Convener – Scottish Independence Convention, Janie Nicoll, artist, Murdo MacDonald, Professor of History of Scottish Art at the University of Dundee, Joyce McMillan, arts critic, Calum Colvin, artist, Craig Coulthard, artist, Mike Small, editor.
This final top twenty will be made available in print quality for download. A big thanks to everyone who took part – sorry to those who didn’t make the final cut – we hope you all enjoy the images.
Ciaran Murphy
Rosie Balyuzi
Fergus Walker
Martin Laird
Gabriel Durnan
Maxwell McKilligan
William Bryan
Jamie Rose
Dhivya Kate Chetty
Fergus Walker
Renate Jephcott
Stewart Bremner
R Campbell
Doug Summers
Ciaran Murphy
Dhivya Kate Chetty
Ritchie Feenie
Andrew Mac
Dougal Barrie
Mairi Strong
Ritchie Feenie
Douglas Kelso
Sally Hughes
Ritchie Feenie
Ritchie Feenie
Stuart Graham
Lillians Kinsman-Blake
Helena Torry
Fraser Croall
G Connelly
Simon Chadwick
Stewart Bremner
Fantastic! Looking at all this talent and the positivity expressed brought tears to my eyes.
Many fantastic images there well done to all involved
Power stuff! Got for it Scotland, unshackle yourselves from Westminster and become a beacon for others throughout the UK.
Brilliant! Put them up on every lamppost! YES
Wow! Glad I don’t have to pick the winner. There are at least 20 winners there – all very powerful images from very talented artists. I’d be very happy with a collage of all 20.
All of these are inspiring and some are stunningly good, but Andrew Mac’s butterlies… it’s incredible. So simple, so uplifting and so beautiful. That one makes people stop in their tracks first to briefly puzzle over what it is and then the smile when they realise. It works on everyone. Kids, men, women the lot.
I so want to see that one up and down the land but all of these are a tribute to the skill, dedication and passion of the artists involved.
Wonderful stuff. 🙂
I have to agree Mick, Butterflies is so gentle and so powerful all at once.
I agree. That image brought tears to my eyes.
Same here wwilma, quite choked up by those…just stunning and beautiful…what a people we are.
Fergus Walker’s Emperor Dave gets my vote, provided we change his spelling of emperor …..
What a wonderful lot of people we have, loved them all, I do have a couple of favourites but really can we use them all?
Yeh- I feel like they should all be put out there! 😀
Fantastic! They’re ALL brilliant.
Scotland is brilliant – Pure Dead Brilliant!
Wow- well done everyone- these are truly stupendous- so wonderful to have all this creative energy exploding into the discussion!!!!
What a talented lot we are
Brilliant Bella . Huge thanks to all the artists
I don’t usually bother to post comments but these are amazing! And so many of them. Still can’t decide on a favourite, though I love the two from Ciaran Murphy – they just look beautiful. The Aye-pad is quite clever and the butterfly image from Andrew Mac sums up everything about independence perfectly. We need to distribute these images as wide as possible – they are genuinely inspirational.
After the no side stealing our designs for the wee blue stickers – even down the font – this artwork should hopefully distinguish us from the crowd. I honestly think people are beginning to blank the stickers out now anyway, unless you go right up and read them – they could be yes or no stickers.
Incredible!
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All very good.
They’re all great, but the butterfies poster is outstanding.
Agreed – It just captures it all so simply. The genius of leaving that gap is the work of a gifted artist.
I like the simple ones the best, especially if used as window posters, where you need the message across in a glance. The more detailed ones are better online.
Love the adapted ‘Rosie the Riveter’ one with ‘We can do it!’
Defiance against all the negativity, and appealing to strong female voters also.
The butterflies one is great, especially if the YES was a bit bigger, to see at a distance.
Again it depends on where it is used.
The one with YES written on the key is a nice idea.
A YES KEY would work well on its own as a car sticker.
Nicely signifying the opening of doors and possibilities.
This wan: http://bellacaledonia.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/independent.png?w=700&h=745
A mix of pop urban cartoon you name its there it would make a great gallery show in any part of Scotland
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Hi, I submitted a poster for this competition and I can’t see mine there…could you let me know if my submission was entered at all.? Thanks.
Same here Ame Von K. Sent one in twice but never heard back?
Apologies, all posters were received, sorry we can’t reply to them all, our email traffic is ridiculous
Thanks for the reply 😉
Fantastic… I love them all. 🙂
What fabulous posters! Some need a wee bit of editing (spelling, missing hyphens, etc.) but they all have something! Well done!
Bella – get all of these in a book format! I’d buy it.
Love these posters
If anyone wants to download my one I would suggest getting it from the following link. It looks like it’s been through some colour conversion and jpeg compression up there. The one here should be sharper and brighter:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B73GREDVxCf5clNCSkMyZmcxQzQ/
The butterflies are my favourite too. Lovely and elegant piece of symbolism.
If anyone wants to download my unicorn one I would suggest getting it from the following link. It looks like it’s been through some colour conversion and jpeg compression up there. The one here should be sharper and brighter:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B73GREDVxCf5clNCSkMyZmcxQzQ/
The butterflies are my favourite too. Lovely and elegant piece of symbolism.
Oops, sorry about the double post!
I like Libertae, Fraternitae, etc. but Butterflies is just unbeatable. It’s the purest of the lot as the image says it all, no words are required. It taps straight into our thoughts and emotions.
My favourite piece of art the whole campaign was the Africans for Indy logo-it’s stunningly beautiful
Butterflies is incredible. Would make a cracking t-shirt too.
(a study in negative space!)
Inspiring.
After looking at them all again, my favourites are:
Fergus Walker’s
Richie Freenie’s two; To Imagine Our Nation Afresh, and The Best Way To Predict Your Future…
Fraser Croall’s Yes For A’ That
and G Connelly’s AyePad
They all stand out to me as being pertinent, passionate, intelligent, impactful visually.
🙂 It is just brilliant to see the bright voices and ideas rising to the top of our melting pot of new cultural awakening!
Onwards and upwards!
Thanks Clare – we’ve had great load of entries
A truly inspiring and diverse range of work here, very happy to make the cut. Larger versions of my entries (plus another 70-odd posters) can be found here: https://postersofhope.wordpress.com/
https://postersofhope.wordpress.com/ I’m doing one poster a day until #IndyRef. Please help yourself.
Ritchie
Outstanding talent and great imagination.
We’ll need lots of both from September 19th onwards. 🙂
For me the one that reaches in and grabs your soul and squeezes it until it hurts is the Butterflies,Ive tried to get a top printed with this for my wife but it would cost a fortune.
But the one with liber-tae, egeli-tae, franterna-tae has an immediate and punchy qualty that you would get right away if you saw this while sitting on a bus, however then theres the Ayepad, Simon Chadwicks entry, Stewart Bremners, ……………………………….good luck choosing I dont envy you!
Crowd fund this and get them all out there, they’re all winners. 🙂
Butterflies are a symbol of transformation that is natural and evolutionary. I love the way Andrew Mac’s poster shows that all nations aspire to reach their their potential, and Scotland is rising to join them. A rUK flag among them is a subtle touch. Though a battle lies ahead, this poster expresses, without hard words, why it is worth the effort.