BUC Competitions 2024

The Winners of the BUC 2024 Art and Photography Competition were:

In the categories for Photography:

1) Survivor (for DSLR/professional cameras)

The winner was Glacial Pioneer – tufted saxifrage, Saxifraga cespitosa by Calum McLennan, Lancaster University with the runner-up New Life out of Old by Emmeline Smith, University of Reading

2) Overlooked (for smartphones)

The winner was Monotropa hypopitys by Marco Dobson, Edge Hill University with the runner-up Bryophyte Boulder by James Ashford, Prifysgol Aberystwyth University.

For Fine Art, the there were two categories, Realism and Abstract. One winner and runner-up were selected across the two categories. The winner was Under the Radar – Jamie Hewetson, Durham University and the runner-up was Oxford ragwort embroidered t-shirt by Sarah Clark from Oxford Brookes University

See all the shortlisted entries in this video.

The winner of the most popular team name competition was Team Dundee Daylilies from the University of Dundee, with Team House of the Rhizome Sun from University College Dublin as the runner-up.

The winner of the most popular limerick competition was the team from University of Dundee for:

All the limericks can be seen and heard on our YouTube channel.