Congratulations to the winners of the Mercy Youth Awards for 2024!
This year’s theme was focused on Supply Chains. The Mercy Foundation asked students to reflect on this theme within the context of striving for a fair and sustainable world. We encouraged students to consider the choices that they make when they are making purchases and to reflect this in their submissions.
Congratulations to the winners of the Mercy Youth Award:
- 1st Prize: Carina C.
- 2nd Prize: Catherine W.
- 3rd Prize: Matilda W.
The prize winners were all Year 10 students at Monte Sant’ Angelo College.
Another ten artworks were judged as Highly Commended.
We extend our thanks to Carolyn Kitto, Director, Be Slavery Free, who helped us judge this year’s competition. Thank you to all the students that entered the competition for their creative and well considered entries.
1st Prize:
My artwork illustrates an ethical pasta supply chain, emphasising sustainable farming and fair trade. It begins with sourcing ingredients from suppliers who ensure fair wages and safe conditions for workers, as shown in the first tier of the fork. Aspects of energy-efficient technologies are evident in the production of the artwork.
2nd Prize:
In my artwork I depict the troubling reality of fast-fashion waste being dumped on third-world countries. The scene shows discarded clothing and textiles being thrown into a bottomless bin, where the textiles fall onto communities struggling with poverty and environmental challenges, a metaphorical reflection of what is happening within the current fast fashion supply chains.
3rd Prize:
My artwork, replicating the impacts of manufacturing on the natural environment, highlighting the profound detriment, carbon emissions have on the future of our planet. As supply chains, and unethical practices, such as fast fashion manufacturing, lead to high carbon emissions, my artwork aims to demonstrate how irreplaceable environments can be led to deterioration through the continuation of unsustainable routines. By contrasting a large agency, dedicated to manufacturing, and consumerism, and a valuable natural environment, I am to portray the damage caused by these agencies, and their unethical practices, ultimately portraying the potential benefits of ethical supply chains.
