Seven year-old Peiqi Zhou has helped hang her award-winning painting in the Lowry Galleries, Salford where it will remain on display for the next year, alongside the famous works it was inspired by.
Selected from hundreds of entries as the winner of The Lowry’s annual Copley Prize. 7-year-old Peiqi Zhou who attends Yew Tree Community School in Oldham was welcomed to The Lowry on Thursday 12th September alongside her family to hang her painting in the LS Lowry Galleries, where it will remain on display for the next year.
Peiqi’s work was chosen as this year’s overall winner by Alison and Noel Copley, who founded the competition as an exciting way to encourage primary-aged children to develop their creativity and artistic ability. The prize invites children to recreate their own modern-day versions of LS Lowry’s work, in ways that represent the world that they live in, often capturing images of the environment around them, just as Lowry did.
Peiqi has titled her painting Two Lovely Little Sisters and said “It is me and my sister walking through the park to the shops to get some food. We are happy because it is the weekend.”
Gwen Oakden, Deputy CEO & Director of Development at The Lowry said
“We are so in awe of the consistently high quality of entries and the endless creativity of the children who enter their beautiful work into the Copley Prize, and we want to thank everyone who took part this year. We are so pleased and proud to be able to share Peiqi’s personal and touching work with thousands of visitors to our galleries over the next year. We also want to thank Alison and Noel for their continued dedication and support of this important programme which helps us to nurture and encourage the next generation of artists all over the country.”
