Nestlé Centenary Art Project award winners

Media and Creative Choice Award winners - L-R: Raphael Tungwarara (Design School SA) and Caitlin Schroder-Beneke (Pretoria High School for Girls).

Tertiary and high school students were briefed to consider South Africa’s social, cultural, historical and environmental contexts as well as Nestlé’s contribution to the local economy when creating their work.

Entries were sourced from art students in Gauteng, Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and North West provinces.

In the tertiary student category, Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) duo Natalie Gendron (20) and Kyron Green (21) ranked highly with judges with their Ricoffy–inspired artwork.

Pretoria High School for Girls' 16-year-old Caitlin Schroder Beneke’s “explicitly African woman” artwork using, in part, Nestlé Maggi 2-Minute Noodles as a medium, was by far the most popular, winning the Media and Creative Choice Award in the high school category.

The Media and Creative Choice Award winners are selected by an extraordinary panel of judges, the first comprising arts and culture journalists and the second of creative industry players.

Raphael Tungwarara (25) from Design Schools SA took home the tertiary Media and Creative Choice Award.

Recipients of the Nestlé Art Project award will receive a R50,000 and R25,000 cash prize.

“The winners represent the best of art students and Nestlé is thrilled to be part of their journey. The quality of work presented is proof of the incredible talent, ideas and skill we have in our country. The arts remain a useful platform for young people to express themselves and carve out a living that starts to contribute to the growth of our economy,” said Nestlé Corporate Affairs Director, Ravi Pillay.

Pillay also announced a small scale pilot community outreach project, which will see young students from Morris Isaacson High School in Soweto participating in the Nestlé Arts Master Class.