Ignite Awards Recipients

Artist: Leo Gerardo Leonardo   

Season 1 trophy symbolizes a light  vessel that carries the core values of Amnesty International. The glass ball design serves as a metaphor of a seed or an idea that has blossomed into a rich variety of colours, animated, full of translucency and opens up to new experiences, discoveries, and freedoms. As with many of life’s challenges, the piece is a contrast of textures – the polished glass ball reflects the image of the recipient and energized by the glow of the light. The upper, roughly textured organic forms dance with the wind element – filled with excitement and the joys of creativity and freedom.  

Artist: Santos Bayucca

“Ub’bba I Ab’ba”, the traditional way of carrying someone on one’s back. Commonly done by mothers and fathers with their young children, sometimes it is done with the use of a cloth or a blanket for added support. It is also a common method for carrying a wounded/ill person, a child or the elderly, and used to carry people who need to flee a dangerous situation like a flood or fire. The sculpture symbolizes how human rights defenders care for a world where everyone enjoys all human rights.

The design uses excess wood (retazo) or wood left over from previous projects like from construction sites or wood shops and driftwood found in the mountainsides and rivers.

Artist: Chris Cuevas

“Mutualism: Infinite Loop” is a sculpture that is a response to the global crackdown on the right to protest, a visual representation of Amnesty International’s Protect the Protest global campaign.

The sculpture is centered on the clenched fist which symbolizes peaceful protest, mounted on a 3-dimensional layer of concentric ‘patinated’ copper alloy rings – the gyroscope represents the multi-dimensional barrier to civil liberties. And the patination symbolizes corrosion, representing that basic rights are continuously being attacked through unlawful sanctions, state practices and policies that aim to curtail the right to protest amongst others.