The winners of the 2018 Fringe Schools Poster Competition were revealed at a prizegiving ceremony at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh yesterday.
From left to right: Secondary 1 to Secondary 6 winner Riona Harrison (aged 14, from Blairgowrie High School in Blairgowrie), Primary 1 to Primary 3 winner Matilda Little (aged six, from St Mary’s School in Melrose), Lyndsey Jackson, Director of Operations at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, and Primary 4 to Primary 7 category winner Iona Mackinnon-Rae (aged eight, from George Heriot’s School in Edinburgh)
The winning designs will feature as the official posters for the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and will be displayed as part of a free exhibition at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh from today 22 May to the 27 August 2018, alongside entries from 13 other regional winners and more than 140 shortlisted designs.
198 classes from 137 schools across Scotland entered the competition, with over 4,680 pupils submitting Edinburgh Festival Fringe inspired poster designs.
The Fringe Schools Poster Competition launched in 1980 and is one of Scotland’s longest-running arts outreach projects. Over the past 38 years, more than 100,000 young people across the country have taken part.
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