Royal Agricultural Show: – Calligraphers’ Guild Of Western Australia

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY CRAFTS EXHIBITION

Prize Winners for 2025

**BEST EXHIBIT IN CALLIGRAPHY**
Martin Dickie for his piece in the Theme Class ‘Sunflowers’

Class 21 – Beginners
First Prize: Susie Waller

Class 22 – Intermediate
First Prize: Jeanette Fuller
Second Prize: Sandra Wedding

Class 25 – Open
First Prize: Martin Dickie
Second Prize: Sandra Wedding
Third Prize: Doug Hughes

Theme Class 23 – Sunflowers
First Prize: Martin Dickie
Second Prize: Sandra Wedding
Second Prize: Doug Hughes

Highly Commended: Jenny Fowles

Congratulations to all prize winners!

Susie Waller -her interpretation of the beginners text: ‘Geometry can produce legible letters, but art alone makes them beautiful’. Paul Standard.
The letters forms are made from three gelli plate prints on cartridge paper hand cut into various shapes, to reflect the geometric theme. It is mounted on a textured 400gsm paper.

**Above:** Jeanette’s piece features a brass rubbing of a monk that was photocopied onto beige paper to represent parchment. The words of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales are written in Uncial using a C2 Speedball nib and black Ecoline ink.

Above: Sandra Wedding: This 50cm x 50cm piece by Sandra was inspired by the Magnificent Monoline workshop held by Rick Paulus that Sandra attended attended during the 2025 IAMPETH Conference in Norfolk, Virginia USA.

This piece uses Theodore Roosevelt’s address on April 23, 1910, at the Sorbonne in Paris on the topic of Citizenship in a Republic that he Titled “Man in the Arena”. Sandra used Walnut ink to get an inconsistent colour. She chose French Roundhand.

**Sandra Wedding** paired dry embossing using a bone folder to achieve the crisp edges using Engrossers script.

**Doug Hughes** – Theme class Sunflowers

Above: Martin Dickie – 3D constructed piece titled Sunflower Sundial.
Not to tell time, the arcades house a sunflower facing the sun at the given hour.

**Martin Dickie:** Martin fashioned for himself homemade cola pens to write the words of Alexander Pope using Red Sumi ink for this experimental piece.

Below: Jeanette Fuller – Jeanette used a C2 Speedball nib black Ecoline ink for the Uncial lettering. Gouache for the sunflower sprinkled with rock salt.