2011 Submissions

How to vote: Click ‘Vote’ on the piece you think should win. You can vote on more than one if you want, but only once per item. At the end of the day, the votes on that day’s submissions are totalled and the one with the most votes wins the prize for that day. And once the competition’s finished, the piece with the most votes will win the Peoples Choice Award.

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All competition entries:

Jenny Christian – Behind Stripey’s Facade
Name of Artist: Jenny Christian Title of Piece: Behind Stripey’s Facade There was no entry form with this entry, as the artist is currently out [...]
Jenny Christian - behind stripey's facade

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Isis Graywood – My flesh, my enemy
Name of Artist: Isis Graywood Title of Piece: My Flesh, My Enemy About the Piece: Weak, poisonous, dangerous. I fear my flesh – my most dangerous en [...]
My Flesh My Enemy Isis Graywood Ryan Shaw 0

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Travis King – Hooked on the Pain of Love
Name of Artist: Travis King Title of Piece: Hooked on the Pain of Love About the Piece: This piece comes from the very beginning of my relationship wi [...]
Travis King's first Pull

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Ella Kane – Empty Heart of Pain
Name of Artist: Ella Kane (Age 14) Title of Piece: Empty Heart of Pain About the Piece: I drew this to express the pain I am in everyday that I can on [...]
ella kane (14)

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Stellar Kristel – Reflection
Name of Artist: Stellar Kristel Title of Piece: Reflection About the Piece: ‘As the ink is etched upon my flesh like the blueprints to my life story [...]
Stellar kristel

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Sandi Clapperton – The many colors of pain
Name of Artist: Sandi Clapperton Title of Piece: The many colors of pain About the Piece: Pain comes in many colours, evokes many feelings, some days [...]
sandi clapperton the many colors of pain

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Leesha Ragdoll –
Name of Artist: Leesha Ragdoll Title of Piece: – Black clouds and silver linings About the Piece: This doll was to represent the prison many peo [...]
Leesha Ragdoll entry 1

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Alexis Ware – Mystery
Name of Artist: Alexis Ware Title of Piece: Mystery About the Piece: I took a photo of my xrays when they were up in the window and reassembled them t [...]
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

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Daniel Dillen – Breaking the Stone Cold Silence
Name of Artist: Daniel Dillen Title of Piece: Breaking the Stone Cold Silence About the Piece: It began with a single face. Almost featureless, sunken [...]
daniel dillen sculpture

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Lauren Manson – The Hollow
The Hollow – Lauren Manson The echo I embrace with open arms A breathless room of mirrored views. I sit and stare and not a thought is whispered [...]

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Rachel Donnelly – Can’t break the chains, but the chains won’t break me (2)
Name of Artist: Rachel Dawson Title of Piece: Can’t break the chains, but the chains won’t break me (2) About the Piece: In my picture my legs are [...]
PAIN2

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Rachel Donnelly – Can’t break the chains, but the chains won’t break me
Name of Artist – Rachel Donnelly Title of Piece - Can’t break the chains, but the chains won’t break me About the Piece - In my picture my l [...]
PAIN

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Sam Wheeler – the Price of Power
Name of Artist: Sam Wheeler Title of Piece: The Price of Power About the Piece: Shamans believe that through pain they become transformed. They become [...]
The price of power (web)

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Sam Wheeler – Angels come in many forms
Name of Artist: Sam Wheeler Title of Piece: Angels come in many forms About the Piece: Brief description of the origin of the concept & the piece [...]
Sam wheeler Angels comes in many forms (web)

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James Bennett – While my guitar gently weeps
Name of Artist: Jame Bennett Title of Piece: While My Guitar Gently Weeps About the Piece:No matter how alien or isolated, my guitars are always there [...]
James Bennett whileMyGuitarGentlyWeeps

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Sam Wheeler – Esme
this entry is a song, listen to it here LYRICS: Esme by Sam Wheeler 2011 (for Gran on her 84th birthday) Wide open Fields, and your running free, your [...]

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Sam Wheeler – Grid
this entry is a song and can be heard here Lyrics: Drink the water from my cupped hand If you thirst if you need Smooth the cracked lips with a cube I [...]

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Sam Wheeler – Grid
i’m so sorry guys, i cant sit up any more.. today has been intense, and stressful, and my body has caved in & is now not working. Sam’ [...]

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Sam Wheeler – Tension Headaches
Name of Artist: Sam Wheeler Title of Piece: Tension Headaches About the Piece: This was cathartic. Painting away the headaches. When its bad you feel [...]
Sam Wheeler Tension Headaches. A Self Portrait (web)

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Caren Ashford – Flower of Hope
Name of Artist: Caren Ashford Title of Piece: Flower of Hope About the Piece: My pain is cold and hot, burning cold and burning hot all from a black p [...]
Caren (2)

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Sandi Clapperton – Metamorphosis
Name of Artist: Sandi Clapperton Title of Piece: Metamorphosis About the Piece: I wanted to depict the Metamorphosis of how I feel from pain and despa [...]
Sandi clapperton _MG_7405-2web

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Sam Wheeler – Slave to Pain
Name of Artist: Sam Wheeler Title of Piece: Slave to Pain About the Piece: This was sketched from a photo I took of myself a few years ago on a bad da [...]
Sam Wheeler Slave to pain web

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Victoria Anderson – See Me, See My Pain
Name of Artist: Victoria Anderson Title of Piece: See me, See My Pain About the Piece: I wanted to make my invisible pain visible – from my knee wit [...]
SONY DSC

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Sam Wheeler – Gorebeast
Name of Artist: Sam Wheeler Title of Piece: Gorebeast About the Piece: Originally I was just into drawing the foulest and creepiest monsters I could d [...]
Sam Wheeler - gorebeast

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Kirsty Kay-Russell – despair
Name of Artist: Kirsty Kay-Russell Title of Piece: Despair About the Piece: Pain allows you to live, but to live a life changed for ever, shut away in [...]
Kirsty K despair

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James Bennett – From the Ashes
Name of Artist: James Bennett Title of Piece: From the Ashes About the Piece: 2 continuous lines controlled by pressure, decay and speed. Done in the [...]
James Bennet fromTheAshes

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Kirsty Kay-Russell – Mirror Mirror
Name of Artist: Kirsty Kay-Russell Title of Piece: Mirror mirror About the Piece: Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all? Well my [...]
Mirror Mirror Kirsty Kay

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Kirsty Kay-Russell – Expectation
Name of Artist: Kirsty Kay-Russell Title of Piece: Expectation About the Piece: Life, starting again, renewed in the fertile and heavily pregnant form [...]
Kirsty Kay-Russell Expectation

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Kirsty Kay-Russell – Phoenix
Name of Artist: Kirsty Kay-Russell Title of Piece: Phoenix About the Piece: Pain, chronic pain is not just about pain, there is so much that goes hand [...]
Kirsty Kay-Russell 2

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Sandi Clapperton – Surrender
Name of Artist: Sandi Clapperton Title of Piece: Surrender About the Piece: The concept of this picture is surrendering to the pain, coming to a place [...]
Sandi Clapperton - surrender

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Kirsty Kay-Russell – Relief 2
Name of Artist: Kirsty Kay-Russell Title of Piece: Relief 2 About the Piece: Pain so sharp, so excruciatingly jagged, the burning, tearing agony that [...]
Kirsty-Kay relief2 A

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Jo – Broken but ok
Name of Artist: Jo Title of Piece: Broken but ok About the Piece: Broken or Br(ok)en. A battle between the two, you fight for the better days, so you [...]
broken & ok - jojopixie

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Abigalewitch – Alone (poem)
^..^Alone^..^ I took off my boots by the door I took off my jewellery dropped my clothes to the floor I slipped off my skin As i entered the kitchen W [...]

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Abigalewitch – Alone
Artist: Abigalewitch (Evil Arts) Title of Piece: Alone About the Piece: Addiction…alone…different…mental and emotional pain…body shutting down [...]
more stuff 072

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Abigalewitch – alone
Name of Artist: Abigalewitch (Evil Arts) Title of Piece: Alone About the Piece: Brief description of the origin of the concept & the pieces inten [...]
more stuff 018

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Abigalewitch – PAIN
Artist: Abigalewitch (Evil Arts) Name of Piece: PAIN About the Piece: Boy on street…alone…scared…his body hurts, his heart hurts…PAIN! About t [...]
more stuff 011

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Sharlene Schmidt – Contemplation
Artist: Sharlene Schmidt Title of Piece: Contemplation About the Piece: “Contemplation” was painted while I was on 24hr watch over my Suicidal Asp [...]
Sharlene Schmidt Contemplation

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Alexis Ware – Behind the Smile
Artist: Alexis Ware Title of Piece: Behind the Smile About the Piece: This is a pic of a happy girl doing burlesque (which is what I do) I messed with [...]
Alexis entry1

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Grae Burton – See the planes and learn how they fly
Artist: Grae Burton Title of the Piece: See the planes and learn how they fly About the Piece: Part of an experimental photographic series recently un [...]
Grae BurtonSee the planes and learn how they fly

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