So, each year my home town Lisbon celebrates it's local festivities in June and, like in every country of southern Europe, we celebrate with lots of food (and drinks) :D
The delicacy of this particular festival is the overly abundant in our seas – Sardine.
In the spirit of these celebrations, our city hall launches a big annual international art contest, in which the participants are challenge to create art within the outlines of a sardine shape and 6 out of thousand of submissions are selected by a jury to be the winners.
So, in 2016 I entered the contest and made up to the top 20. Although I didn't win, this led to my sardine being selected to be part of the new batch of the exclusive Bordallo Pinheiro Sardine Collection (which are clay shaped sardines with our art printed on it) to be sold to the general public.
This invitation came in 2018, and by the start of 2019 my 3D sardine was already for sale in all Vista Alegre stores as well as online.
I had to adjust the 2D drawing submission to be wrapped around a 3D piece, and so I had to also design the back piece for it.
Here are pictures of my Sardine titled "Household Festivity"
Hope you like it!
On the left, my contest submission and the 3D piece on the right.
Front and back view of the piece
Vista Alegre shop window in Largo do Chiado – Lisbon
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