Congratulating Eckersley’s Art and Craft Prize winners
The VCAA congratulates the Eckersley’s Art and Craft Prize recipients featured in the Top Designs exhibition at Melbourne Museum.
These prizes recognise the outstanding innovation and creativity exhibitors have achieved in their
design studies.
The following recipients have been awarded the Eckersley’s Art and Craft Prize for:
• Sustainability: Nikolai Havemann-Brown from Bundoora Secondary College for his
Product Design and Technologies work ‘Paper Recycling Station’.
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• Community: Catrin Walker from Williamstown High School for her Visual
Communication Design work ‘Our Guide to Feminism’.
• Placemaking: Jac Ormes from Parkdale Secondary College for his Visual
Communication Design work ‘Shock Factor (SHCK)’.
• Craftsmanship: Jade Curci from Ringwood Training / Kew High School was awarded
the Eckersley’s Art and Craft Prize for her VCE VET Engineering work ‘Fire and Ice’.
• Automation: Santiago Leys De La Rosa from Newhaven College for his Systems
Engineering work ‘Chicken Feeder’.
The prize winners were selected by an expert panel of judges, including Dani Scaramuzzino,
Eckersley’s Art and Craft Art Specialist, Ali Sanderson, Education Program Producer at Melbourne
Museum, and Rina Gao, President, Environmental Education Victoria.
Top Designs 2025 continues at Melbourne Museum until Sunday 20 July. For more information visit Melbourne Museum.
Read more on Top Designs.
