See the winning artworks from a Powys museum’s competition

The Machynlleth Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) announced the winners of the 2024 Tabernacle Art Competition, with all the winners now on display at the museum over the summer after over 200 entrants were submitted.  

The theme for the competition was ‘On a Windy Day’, with different categories to make the competition open to both children and adults.

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First Prize in the adults category was Robert Price, a photographer who specialises in night time shots and was previously shortlisted for Astronomy Photographer of the Year. He won the competition at MOMA with his photograph on aluminium of Melin Llynon in Anglesey.

He said: “Llynon Mill is somewhere I have wanted to photograph for a while. I took 760 photos at regular intervals to capture the movement in the stars, when these photos are overlayed on top of each other they create lines that plot the path of the stars through the night sky as the Earth spins.

(Image: Robert Price)

“The circles show four and a half hours worth of movement. The mill and foreground are lit by a nearly full Moon”.

Second Prize was shared this year by Gareth Brindle Jones with his oil on canvas titled ‘Rachel’, and Annie Giles Hobbs with her work in oils titled ‘On a Windy Day’, while third prize went to Alison Ross with her mixed media work titled ‘Shoo! (Windy Wash Day)’.

(Image: MOMA)

Gwenllian Breese, a pupil at Ysgol Bro Hyddgen in Machynlleth, won in the Ages 12 to 17 category with her acrylic collage titled ‘Mrs Jones yn Mynd i’r Capel’ (Mrs Jones Going to Chapel) while Chloe Marsh, age 10 from Luton, won in the Ages 11 and under category with her mixed media work titled ‘A Windy Spring Morning in Toddington’.

Impressionist oil painter Christopher Mike, judge for the 2024 competition, said: “It was a real privilege to have been asked to judge the 2024 Tabernacle Art Competition. Any opportunity to submit artwork for display in a public place is something to be cherished.”

The winning works, alongside the highly commended works and a selection of other submitted works, will be exhibited at MOMA Machynlleth from June 22 to September 4.