Online Exhibition: Decorated Pumpkins 2020

The 2020 Exhibition is Open!

This year for the very first time we changed the format of our very popular Pumpkin decorating competition to an online event. We have been amazed and thoroughly entertained by the very high standard of all the entries and it was very difficult to pick the winners! There were over 320 entries!—all included here.

An astonishing array of very creative and innovative techniques have been used by all ages of contestants: from very detailed low-relief, semi-transparent carving to stick-on cut-outs and papercraft, and mixed-media assemblages.
Some of those media have blown us away too. From shiny glitter to actual screws and nails! Soft natural feathers, leaves and hair. Lego and sweets. Toys and sports equipment! Rubbish bags, cobwebs and 600 spikes! Not to mention, very clever use of light—lest we forget that!
The subjects are also broad and fascinating: Funny and terrifying monsters, ghosts and witches—of course; but also lovely fairies, angels and unicorns; dinosaurs, foxes, fish, pets—bats and cats! Well-known Superheroes, and the lesser-known ones in medicine fighting viruses. Covid-19 and politics are accompanied by personal anxiety; but there are also comforting notions of home! Didn’t we say we’ve been amazed and entertained? Bravo to everyone.

So we want to thank all of you who entered the competition (thank you!) and feel that everyone who entered deserves to have their pumpkin viewed by the public in this online exhibition. We do hope you enjoy viewing them as much as we did!

0-4 Category Entries
5-6 Category Entries
7-8 Category Entries
9-10 Category Entries
11-18 Category Entries
18+ Category Entries
Environmental Pumpkin Category Entries
Family or Group Category Entries

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0-4 Category Entries

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: Ronan Gregg 4 Lady Pumpkitty

: Eabha Corcoran 4 Pumpkin Ghoul

: Gracie May Burke 4 Newnicorn

: Ciara O’Sullivan 4 An Cailleach bogha baisti

: Emilie Cowley Lane age 4 Hairy Baby

: Holly Robertson 0-4 Paint Smashing Pumpkin

: Clodagh Hickey 0-4 Nurse Rainbow

: Matilda Cummins 3 Glitter Monster Pumpkin

: Rian Gahan 4 Captain Underpants

: Lara Byrne 3 Sweetie

: Halle Melia 2.75 Lady Pumpkin

: Amalia Bjerg 3 Daisy Pumpkin

: Dearbhla Ui Chuis 4 Princess good

: Alannah MacMahon 4 Unicorn Pumpkin

: Lily Carthy 0-4 Poppy heading out

: Gracie May Burke 4 I found Nemo

: Aisling O’Callaghan 4 Feather Head

: Chloe Klap 0-4 Rainbow

: Elijah Nevin Knight 2.5 Little Leafy the Birdfeeder

: Baily 2 Unicorn

: Beni 3 Peg Maniac

: Naomi Klap 0-4 Flower Power

: Oscar Morrissey- Age 4 -T Rex baby dinosaur hatching during the Covid19 lockdown ROARRR

: Fionn 21 months Untitled

: Myles Kirwan 4 Under the Sea

: Iris Brennan 3 Scarcrow Pumpkin

: Zoe Spring 0-4 Chocolate Apple

: Abigail Anderson 3 Pumkin

: Toru Nishino 0-4 Rock Pikmin

: Eoghan Morrissey 4 Blaze and the Monster Machines

: Isla Haworth 0-4 Rainbow

: Niall 2 Blue monster

: Clodagh Corcoran 2.9 Babe in the woods

: Emilie 0-4 Pumpkin Fall

: Adam O’Mahony 3 Turtle Head

: Charlie Salter 4 An Tarbh

: Adam McGinty 4 Pat

5-6 Category Entries

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: Liam Barry 5-6 Spooky Pete

: Louise McGrath 6 Fia the Bubble Blower

: Joseph Sorohan 5 Where’s Wally at Halloween

: Noemie Ntoko 5-6 Pumpkin Spider

: Robin Eager 5-6 Pumpkin Spike and his 600 toothpicks

: Aida di Palma 5-6 Pastel Punky

: Flynn McDonald 6 Jack from the Night Before Christmas

: Rose Ni Neill 5-6 Sciathan Leathair

: Agnes Coleman 5 Elsa the Pumpkin

: James Maloney 5 Mr. Grinch

: Walter Connolly O’Donnell 6 Billy Bob Joe

: Chloe Verger 5-6 Mrs. Liosa Unicorn

: Lucy Cormican 5-6 Ruby the Pumpkin Witch

: Jude Dunne 5 Terrifying Turnip

: Oisin Byrne 5 The wheels on the bus

: Roan Mullarkey 5 Darth Vader

: Evie Rose O’Mara 5-6 Unicorn Pumpkin

: Leo Spring 6 Bat Boy

: Isobel Lyons 5-6 Pumpkin Punk

: Jamie Evans 5-6 Spooky Lego Jail

: Michael Mann 6 Zombie Breaks

: Alex Teggin 5-6 Mr. Zombie

: Cuan O’Donaill 5-6 Keep it mellow

: Sophie Black 6 Harry Potter

: Kylle 6 Captain Jack

: Kellie Bohan 6 Miss Unicorn

: Roisin Brennan 5-6 Zooming Pumpkins

: Oisin Ni Fh 5 Foxkin

: Sophie Ostojicova 5-6 Owl

: Didi Connolly O’Donnell Susie

: Irmina Kalzuka 5-6 Pumpkin the Mask

: Rian Cavanagh 6 Bob

: Daniel Miszkiel 5-6 Bat Pumpkin

: Dorian 6 Halloween Decoration

: Saoirse O’Mahony 5 Lightening

: Daniella Ring 5 Woofy

: Darragh O’Loughlin 5 Bemlin the Gremlin

: Aida Moisa 5 Minnie Mouse

: Zoe Straton aged 6 Party Pooper

: Croiadh Small 5-6 Princess Pumpkin Patch

: Alex Tully 5 Toffee Apple

: Yumo Wan 6 Pumpkin House

: Lauren Ui Chuis 6 Leaf me alone

7-8 Category Entries

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: Danny Lyons 7-8 Covid-19

: Lua Reynolds 8 Day of the Dead

: Holly Flynn 7 Colourful Panda

: Anna Morrissey 7 Princess Sparkle

: Aoife Delaney 7-8 YODA CAT

: Orla Byrne 7 Ellie the Princess

: Saibh O’Sullivan 7-8 An Beach Gnothach

: Andrew Doherty 7-8 Tina the Scary Pumpkin

: Yoshiharu Tomikawa 7 Orange Cat

: Poppy McDonald 7 Scary Pumpkin

: Sarah Grace Lawlor 7 I’m being 2020 for Halloween

: Aaron O’Sullivan 7 Keven

: AJ 7 Deadpool

: Liana Ring 7 Sionni

: Brandon Humphries 8 Jack the Pumpkin King Night before Christmas

: Ella Connolly 7-8 Uri

: Oliwia Sajdyk 8 Tiny little Fox

: Orla 7-8 Angry Bird

: Kabir Agnihotri 7-8 years Fall 2020

: Sadbh Down 7-8 Unicorn Witch

: Sasha Ostojicova 7-8 Lucky

: Cillian Mullarkey 8 Master Yoda from Starwars

: Cadhla Guilfoyle 8 Mandolorian + Baby Yoda

: Ella Byrne 8 Tony the Owl

: Andrew Doherty 7-8 Are you going to scream

: Anna Maguire 7 Trash Bag Papermache eco

: Jack Salter 8 Lets keep playing safely

: Darragh Doherty 7-8 Max the Pumpkin

: Layla Byrne 8 Party Pumpkin

: Federico Ceranto 7-8 Carvers vs spiders

: Faye McDonnell 8 Golden Snitch

: Daragh Coleman 8 Stormtrooper

: Orla 7-8 Monster Eye

: Hope Cribbin 7-8 Among Us

: Patrick Senda 8 Happy Holidays

: Rebecca Tully 7 Candy

: Lucy Haworth 7 Lion

: Liadain Verling 7-8 Carved Covid

: Pearl O’Shaughnessy 7 Stripes

: Sylvester Kalveka 7-8 Husky Pumpkin

: Leon Ostojicova 7-8 The Crazy

: Rinko Nishino 7-8 Red Pikmin

: Darragh Doherty 7-8 Are you going to the Dentist

: Dearbhaile Corcoran 7-8 Rainbow pumpkin

: Nathan Dexie 7 Training and Waiting

: Jamie 8 Little Jack

: Aoibhe Gahan 8 Melted rainbow on a pumpkin

: Ella May O’Callaghan 8 Skelly Nelly

: Patrick Sorohan 7 Zombie Burger

: Millie Murphy 8 Pumpicorn

: Eliot Dunne 8 Covid Crazy

: Ethan Abrams 7-8 Long Eared Owl

: Isabelle Maher 8 Pumpkin Villa

: Caoimhe Kavanagh 8 Frankie Frankenstein

: Aodh Ui Chuis 7 Pirate Mummy messy

: Anna Maguire 7 Little One

: William O’Mahony 8 Stabbed Eye Man

: John McGrath 7 Sonic

: Brandon Humphries 8 Mr. Krabs Spongebob

: leon donovan 7-8 mickey mouse

: Conor McGinty 8 Blue Bird

: Maeve Moore 8 Maeves Mad Cow

: Kate Rooney 7 Crayola the Unicorn

: Orla 7-8 Minion Bob

: Una Donnelly, 7-8, Pussy

: Isabelle May Maher 8 Horrorscope Constellations

: Jonathan Mooney 7-8 Spider Pumpkin

9-10 Category Entries

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: Susanna McDonald 9-10 Wonderfully wicked witch

: Bella O’Neill 9-10 Stitch

: Bebhinn O’Mara 9-10 Myself

: Thomas Carey 9-10

: Abaigh McGeough 9-10 Sparky the monster

: Ailbhe Kavanagh 9 Delvin the Devil

: Katie Smith 9-10 Peek a Boo Pumpkin

: James Cowley Lane Age 9 COVID-19 Pumpkin

: Kayla Redden 9-10 Luna Lovegood

: Abby Farrelly 9 Freddie and Fidelma the flamingos

: Liam and Peadar O’Neill 9-10 Beyblade Burst

: Olivia Wasik 10 Spider Witch

: Brea Mullarkey 10 Autumn Unicorn

: Eabha Coleman 10 A spooky graveyard stroll

: Kyle 9 Scary Skell

: Lucy Maguire 10 Diakon Eyes

: Ruby Brennan 9-10 The Witch

: Victoria Wasik 10 Pennywise from It

: Leia Moore 10 Sloth in a tree

: Eibhlin Barrett 9 Halloween Black Cat Well that’s a turnip for the spooks

: Charlie McCloskey 9-10 A stranger Halloween

: Kian Rowan 10 The Pumkinater

: Mark Burke 10 The Great Pumpkin Famine

: Andrea Hughes 9-10 Stitch

: Gabreil and Eleni 9-10 Mental Pumpkin

: Orla Hughes 9 Hamilton Pumpkin

: Eric Xu 9 Pumpkin on Holiday

: Kate Murphy 10 Frank-Kin

: Rhys Connolly 9-10 Out of this World

: Aoife Morrissey 9 My World

: Liam McGinty 9 Pika

: Lucy Maguire 10 Trash Bag papermache eco pumpkin

: Ciara Creevey 9 Breaking Out

: Cathal Gallagher 9-10 Ghost

: Caoimhe O’Brien 9-10 Slappy from Goosebumps

: Izzy Aspel 9-10 Decoupage Pumpkin

: Adam Deane 9 Who stole Halloween

: Ava Brennan 9-10 Smurfette

: Millie Colley Kenny 10 Orange is sus

: Florence Cashman Ella Lokmer 9-1 Sadie the spa day lady

: Grace McBride 10 Shining

: Leo Rooney 9 Olaf

: Hannah Gooding 9-10 Off to Hogwarts!

: Billy Jay Madden 10 Mario

: Elliot Murray 9 BB8 from Starwars

: Oisin Comiskey 9-10 The Bull

: Mia Raftery 10 Student Worries

11-18 Category Entries

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: Jill Giles 11-18 Covid Bat BW

: Jake O’Shaughnessy 11 The Virus

: Jill Giles 11-18 Covid Bat

: Anthony Good 12 The Nightmare before Christmas

: Ciara Lavery 11 Donald Trumpkin

: Joan 12 Keep Safe

: Ryan Wang 11 Alien came to the town

: Lochlainn Crowe 11-18 Imposter

: Yuzuki Tomikawa 11 Animal Crossing Pumpkin

: Robert 11 Spiderman

: Katie Cowley Lane – age 11 – Stinky Joe

: Lauren Coffey 11-18 BatGirl

: Kim Tobin 11-18 SpiderHalloween

: Conor Hillary 13 Two faced pumpkin

: Siun Cummins 14 Even stranger things

: Tara Power 11-18 The Corpse Bride

: Juliette Lawless Dodeman 11-18 Grumpy face

: Isabel O’Mara 11-18 Doughnut Pumpkin

: Freya Fallon 12 Among Us

: Skirmante Mackevicius 11-18 Banshee

: Esther Patricia Ntoko 11-18 Firework Pumpkin Web

: Johnny Tobin 11-18 Deaumaur

: Enya Silkena 13 Spooky Graveyard

: Laila Ryan 12 Halloween Vase

: Jack Eustace 11 Mr Prickles

: Alanah McKenzie 13 Have a safe Halloween

: Emma Kelly 13 Haunted Castle

: Nadine Small 11-18 Stay safe, Stay Home and save lives

: Mia Colley Kenny 14 Boo

: Grace Boyd 11-18 The Devil

: Leah Mann 11 We are the vaccine

: Eva Moore 12 Pampered Pumpkin

: Ronan McNally 11-18 Toothy Man

: Eabha Caragher 11-18 Amir Amir AKA Moustache Man

: Emma Carvill 11-18 Wicked Witch of the West

: Darragh Byrne 11-18 The Imposter

: Isibéal- 11 – sad kitten polly

: Sophie Blee 12 Yummy Burger

: Grainne Brannigan 11-18 Ron Weasley

: Eve O’Sullivan 11 Joe

: Rianna Cribbin 11-18 Good vs Evil

: Sonia Gieros Tchorz 12 We Hate Covid

: Favour 11-18 The Witch

: Leah Kelly 15 Mike Wasawski

: Nathan Millar 11-18 Evil Nun

: Elisha Gallagher 11-18 Minion

: Hannah McAuliffe 12 Flower Fiesta

: Orlaith Brannigan 11-18 Totoro

: Sarah Tobin 11-18 Coke

: Filip Sajdyk 11 Autumn House

: Maisie Smith 11-18 The Vegetable Ensemble

: Sonny Carey 11-18

18+ Category Entries

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: Alicia Boland 18+ The Butterfly Garden

: Alien from Toystory 18+ Becca Carney

: Catherine Donovan 18+ House of no return

: Clifford the Dog 18+ Sally Lewis

: Cristina Parlea 18+ Fredy Pumpkin

: Damien Kelly 18+ Frankie

: Deborah Kelly 18+ Witchery

: Derkin Down 18+ Michael Myers Halloween

: Friederike Hegelau 18+ Senorita Pepita Pumpkin

: Grazyna Chyla Kacmarek 18+ Celtic Owl

: Iryna Herasymenko 18+ Smiley

: Jenny Moran 18+ Baby Yoda

: Jesina Joseph 18+ Hallowication

: Jolita Kazakauskaite 18+ Blooming Pumpkin

: Leah Kinsella 18+ Cinderella

: Leah Kinsella 18+ Spiderman

: Leah Kinsella 18+ Web Crystal Pumpkin

: Niamh Coughlan 18+ Plague Doctor

: Niamh Coughlan 18+ Winifred Sanderson Hocus Pocus

: Pamela Cribben 18+ Sunflower

: Phelim Cribben 18+ Fire Starter

: Reiko Tomikawa 18+ Stormtrooper

: Sarah Tyrell 18+ Freddy Kruger

: Sarah Tyrell 18+ Valek The Conjuring 2

: Zoe Salter Townshend 18+ The HallowQueen_Special Needs

Environmental Category Entries

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: Niamh Ui Chuis Env I’M a habitat

: 4th Class St. Marys Environmental Fighting Covid

Family and Group Category Entries

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: Campbell family Don’t let your Mask slip

: Collier Family Baby Yoda

: McAuliffe Family Bootiful Florals

: Ruths House Childminding 6 to 12 In our Bubble Pumpkins

: Charlie family Godzilla

: Miss Kiely St Marys Group Day of the Dead

: Piper Leighton Celine Group Husky Dog

: Ellie and Lucy Monaghan Family Yoda and Chewbacca in a Glasnevin Galaxy far far away.

: Senior Infants St Marys Ms Kiely Group Batty

: Victoria Family HallowCat

: Jane O’Gorman Family Zuma

: Booma Childcare Group Even minions show care

: Eleanor McKenna 10 Family Up Up and Away

: Allannah MacMahon Family Finding Fungie

: Ni Dhomhnaill Family We all in this together

: St. Marys Primary school Scary Spider

: St. Marys NS Dungarvan Spooky Town

: Malgorzata Karpinska Family Mrs. Autumn

: Senior Infants St. Marys Dungarvan Halloween Cauldron

: Burke family 4 and 10 Jail House Squash

: Bridget and Izzy Aspel Family Bride Pumpkin

: Piper Leighton Celine Family Minions

: Carly and Tammy 2 and mammy Cocomelon

: Carly and Tammy 2 and mammy Poppy from Trolls

: Jenny and Jack Dunne Family The Witches Brew

: Senior Infants St. Marys Frankenstein

: Collier Family Pumpkin Pig

: 6th Class St. Marys Dungarvan Creepy Cat

: Nicole Blanc and Family Frozen

: Lilla Farkas and Patrik Akyol 15 and 4 Pumkin Ildibo and Pumpkin Peter

: Lucy and Anna Maguire 10 and 7 Eco group

: 1st Class St. Marys Group Friendly Spider

: Elaine and Emilie 4 Family The Crazy Cousin

: Sylvia, Sylvester, Sylvester, Irmina Kaluzka Family Halloween Chicken

: Alex Byrne family Alex’s puppy pumpkin

: Jude OVP Family Group Covid-19 Captured

: Chloe Byrne 4 Family Dumbo

: Piper Leighton Celine Family Ironman

: Byana Maksimovic Family Peppa Pig for my little girl

: Tammy Carney with children age 2,7, 11

: Salter Family The Real Pot of Gold

: Cribbin Family Cribbin Army

: Piper Leighton Celine Family Tinker Bell

: O’Sullivan Family Angler Pumpkin

: Noah Byrne 7 Pikachu

: Emily and Lucy Bermingham Family Mr. Pumpkill

: Ursula Small Family Bluegey Man the Fish

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