The competition, open to higher education art and media students from the UK, Ireland, and Italy, celebrates visual arts on the theme of disability.
Matthew Hammond won first prize for his artwork “Fragile Mind.”
He said: “I’m delighted to have even been put forward for a prize, let alone win.”
Nyimbwa Clyde received the special Mark Bailey first prize for “Peripheral Neuropathy,” a piece about his father’s disability after chemotherapy.
He said: “I’m so grateful to have been chosen for the special first prize.”
Ami Taylor’s “Breathe,” representing respiratory disease COPD, won second prize, while Charlie Swan-Woods’ “Holding Herself Together,” about fibromyalgia, secured joint third.
All work by York St John University winners, along with other competition entrants, is on display in York St John University’s Creative Centre from Friday, March 21 to Wednesday, April 2.
