Once again we have been amazed by the creativity of our entrants who have found ingenious ways to present their names in braille or used braille to create amazing works of art! Browse our online gallery below to enjoy all the entries in our 2021 Braille Art Competition. A huge well done to everyone who entered and a special congratulations to our winners. Enjoy the gallery and be inspired!
Category 1 – braille your name (age: 0 to 10 years)
1st place, Benji Cracknell
Congratulations to our winner of the braille your name competition, Benji, who decorated these egg monsters to spell out his name in braille.
Benji has decorated eggs to look like monsters and then placed them into the corresponding holes in the egg cartons to represent braille letters. Each egg carton has been cut so it has six spaces which is the basis of braille letters. Each monster has been decorated using different coloured materials and textures. There are white, red, green and purple eggs. They have been decorated with wobbly eyes, drawing pins and sequins to give them lots of character!
Runner-up, Ellie Clark
Congratulations to our first runner-up, Ellie, who used her very well behaved pets to braille her name.
Ellie has made a montage of different photos to represent each letter of her name. The first photo is looking down on her dog which represents the dot indicating the next letter is a capital letter. The second, third and fourth photos show stick insects arranged onto wooden squares and represent the ‘E’ ‘l’ and ‘l’ in her name. The fifth photo is of two cats looking up and perfectly arranged in the shape of a braille ‘i’. The final photo is of two very furry guinea pigs, again in perfect position to represent the final ‘e’. Such good animal training skills!
Runner-up, Charlie Bell
Congratulations to our second runner-up, Charlie, who used lots of different materials from plasticine to lights!
The top photo is Charlie’s name written in braille using balls of different coloured plasticine. The second photo shows braille written using different coloured LEDs lit up against a black board. The third photo shows braille written using sequins and the fourth is an aerial view of different glowing objects including a lava lamp, fibre optics and a variety of light-up objects.
Category 2 – braille in pictures! (Age: 11 to 29 years)
1st place, Joseph Whall
Congratulations to our winner of braille in pictures, Joseph who used circular shaped chocolate to create an out-of-this-world space scene.
Joseph’s description of his art:
This is my braille picture made of chocolate, the picture is of a rocket launching into space. In the middle is the rocket, smarties which are organised in the shape of the letter L make up the walls of the space craft, there are two L’s that are separated by a space making up both sides of the ship, a cone on the top of the space ship is represented by a Galaxy Minstrall, this is a letter A.
In the corner is an Astronaut, a polo represents his space helmet and it looks like a letter A, a brown milk chocolate button, it represents his body and is a letter A, both his arms are letter A’s represented by Smarties and his legs are also smarties however these are E’s and I’s.
At the opposite side of the picture is a count down to launch, a number sign is formed with brown milk chocolate buttons and next to it in the same colour and in the same type of chocolate is a letter B to Represent the letter 2 and underneath it is a white milk chocolate button used to represent the number 1.
In the sky above everything is some white milk chocolate buttons which are letter A’s and also are stars and the chocolate Jazzle’s are asteroids, because why not?
Runner-up, Brandon Hulcoop
Congratulations to runner-up Brandon who used his braille embosser to engineer a braille pattern to create a picture of the Tardis from Dr Who. Here he shares the sequence you need to create your own!
Click here to download Brandon’s Tardis instructions in Word >
Runner-up, Logan Holland
Congratulations to runner-up Logan who used a braille embosser to create this image of Ironman!
Logan has used a braille embosser to print braille dots in the shape of Ironman. Ironman looks as though he is blasting off into the sky.
Congratulations to our winners and a big thank you to everyone who put so much time and effort into their entries. We hope you enjoy the full gallery of braille art entries below!
The gallery
Billy Nguyen
Billy has brailled his name using thin slices of carrot. He is holding it on a chopping board and smiling proudly.
Siana, age 4
Siana has stuck different coloured buttons to a paper plate to write her name in braille. She has decorated the plate with elephant stickers.
Agatha Midgley
Agatha has made cupcakes with white icing and silver balls to decorate, she has arranged them to spell out her name in braille and is smiling in the background.
Aizah, age 6
Aizah has stuck different coloured lollipop sticks onto black paper. At the top of each stick are green leaves so that they look like trees. Each leaf has popcorn stuck onto it to form braille letters.
Daniel, age 9
Daniel has melted beads to form a stained glass effect and has then attached silver foil balls to write his name in braille.
Dexter, age 5
Dexter has written his name in braille using different coloured pom poms.
Constance, age 8
Constance has used P.E. equipment such as hoops and cones to spell out her name.
Matilda, age 4
Matilda has used purple icing flowers to braille her name.
Emily, age 6
Emily has used mathematical plastic cubes arranged on a table to braille her name.
Ibrahim, age 4
Ibrahim has painted some paper in the background and then stuck on foam balls to form the braille. He has made all the foam balls look like googly eyes.
Imogen, age 5
Imogen has created a pirate treasure island with sand, treasure chests, shells and pirates! In the centre her name has been brailled using gold chocolate coins.
Karan, age 9
Karan has used red painted hand-prints on a background. On top of this Karan has arranged slices of cucumber, bananas, tomato and an orange to braille their name.
Mera, age 9
Mera’s name has been created in braille using a collection of round objects found at home including a rose, tealights and a pine cone. They have been arranged on a scarf with foam letters also spelling out her name below.
Olivia, age 9
Olivia has used white chocolate buttons on pink paper to write her name. She has drawn a cute panda in felt-tip pen and decorated with chocolate coins and mini chocolate eggs.
Mohammad, age 8
Mohammad has stuck pasta shell shapes to white paper to spell out his name in braille.
Neel, age 7
‘Neel’ written using pom poms, beads, foam shapes and feathers. He has decorated the picture with a pipe-cleaner fish, yellow feathers and beads.
Orla, age 10
Orla has used cupcakes with different coloured icing for each braille letter to spell out her name.
Sienna, age 3
Sienna has used red paint blobs covered in blue glitter to write her name in braille.
Victoria, age 7
Victoria has decorated a white piece of paper with lovely felt-tip drawings of a bright rainbow and flowers. She has stuck pom poms, raised stickers and gems to represent her name in braille.
Sebastian, age 5
Sebastian has painted individual sheets of paper for each letter of his name. The two end sheets are painted with rainbow stripes and the pieces in the middle follow the colours of the rainbow. They are arranged in an arch like just a rainbow. To represent the braille letters, he has used different objects including balls of paper, shells and LEGO bricks.
Robbie, age 8
Robbie has used fried egg sweets to represent his name in braille.
We hope you have enjoyed the gallery as much as we have, we’d love to know your comments!
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