The Banksy Competition, to showcase undiscovered South African creative talent, was launched August 2010 as a collaboration including Learning Curve, Adobe and one small seed. The winners have now been announced, each chosen because his/her artwork stood out for having delivered a powerful message and one for conveying an issue significant to today's cultural socio-political and economic climate.
Winners
Grafmom - Pole-itician - Unisa, Johannesburg
Shaun Francis - Truth illustration - University of Pretoria
Bergen Nielson - Zuma - home studies
Inus Smuts - Google Answers - Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT)
Aimee Sawyer - Rhino - CPUT
Inus Soutschka - the illustration - CPUT
Anthony Chute - Be Yourself - CPUT
Carlo Milandri - Taxi style - 'Black diamond' - Stellenbosch University
Prashant Jivan - Police - Greenside Design Centre
Mia Hohls - Rat Carriage - AAA, Cape Town
"We will be running a similar competition this year for creative South African students," states Tim Smith of Learning Curve