Thank you so much to all who visited the Bath Open Art Prize exhibition this year, and to those who submitted your work. The Bath Open Art Prize acts as a fundraiser to support Fringe Arts Bath festival and our other projects, your participation makes a real difference. Thank you.

And the winner of the People’s Choice is… drumroll…

James Johnson-Perkins, The Great Battle, After Canaletto, Venice, Italy, Vers. 2, 2010-21 (GIGATAGE)

James says, of his work:

"The Great Battle very much relates to childhood memory and thinking of nostalgia, relating to all the things that I thought were “good” and all the things that I thought were “bad” in high or low culture. I basically trawled through a nostalgic past thinking of everything. I literally had a blank book and I wrote down all of the things in my memory that I considered as “good” or “bad” and then found that image in some kind of creative commons place. I placed all the bad elements on the left side and all the “good” elements/characters/memories on the right. These are all involved like life itself, in a giant battle."⁠
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Discover more of James' work here:⁠ johnson-perkins.co.uk⁠

A special shout-out to Rowan Melling and David Wood whose works, seen below, got the next highest number of votes, well done both. www.davidwoodart.com - instagram.com/rowansartwork