A COLLEGE art student bagged a prize in a visual art competition with her take on sitting down to share a cuppa.

BA contemporary craft student Kate Buckley won third place in The Eleanor Worthington Prize competition for her art installation based on the theme ‘communicative languages through visual arts’.

The Eleanor Worthington Prize, offered to students in the UK and Italy, is now in its 4th year. The prize is in memory of Eleanor Worthington who was born in York in 1982 and who died in Italy in 2008. Eleanor spent the last five years of her life confined to a wheelchair, immobile, unable to speak, and only able to use her eyes and face for expression.

Kate, 52, returned to education to study the art foundation course, progressing onto a degree.

She said: "My art became an installation around sharing a moment, taking time to share a cuppa, share the same space, face-to-face and one-to-one.”