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
To see the winners’ gallery only « click here
0-4 Category Entries
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- Elijah Nevin Knight 2.5 Little Leafy the Birdfeeder
- Myles Kirwan 4 Under the Sea
- Oscar Morrissey- Age 4 -T Rex baby dinosaur hatching during the Covid19 lockdown ROARRR
- Eabha Corcoran 4 Pumpkin Ghoul
- Iris Brennan 3 Scarcrow Pumpkin
- Eoghan Morrissey 4 Blaze and the Monster Machines
- Matilda Cummins 3 Glitter Monster Pumpkin
- Aisling O’Callaghan 4 Feather Head
- Clodagh Corcoran 2.9 Babe in the woods
- Isla Haworth 0-4 Rainbow
- Ciara O’Sullivan 4 An Cailleach bogha baisti
- Adam O’Mahony 3 Turtle Head
- Ronan Gregg 4 Lady Pumpkitty
- Zoe Spring 0-4 Chocolate Apple
- Alannah MacMahon 4 Unicorn Pumpkin
- Lily Carthy 0-4 Poppy heading out
- Emilie Cowley Lane age 4 Hairy Baby
- Abigail Anderson 3 Pumkin
- Toru Nishino 0-4 Rock Pikmin
- Holly Robertson 0-4 Paint Smashing Pumpkin
- Baily 2 Unicorn
- Naomi Klap 0-4 Flower Power
- Niall 2 Blue monster
- Fionn 21 months Untitled
- Rian Gahan 4 Captain Underpants
- Adam McGinty 4 Pat
- Gracie May Burke 4 Newnicorn
- Halle Melia 2.75 Lady Pumpkin
- Dearbhla Ui Chuis 4 Princess good
- Chloe Klap 0-4 Rainbow
- Lara Byrne 3 Sweetie
- Emilie 0-4 Pumpkin Fall
- Beni 3 Peg Maniac
- Charlie Salter 4 An Tarbh
- Amalia Bjerg 3 Daisy Pumpkin
- Clodagh Hickey 0-4 Nurse Rainbow
- Gracie May Burke 4 I found Nemo
5-6 Category Entries
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- Dorian 6 Halloween Decoration
- Daniel Miszkiel 5-6 Bat Pumpkin
- Isobel Lyons 5-6 Pumpkin Punk
- Alex Teggin 5-6 Mr. Zombie
- Yumo Wan 6 Pumpkin House
- Sophie Black 6 Harry Potter
- Robin Eager 5-6 Pumpkin Spike and his 600 toothpicks
- Agnes Coleman 5 Elsa the Pumpkin
- Oisin Ni Fh 5 Foxkin
- Aida Moisa 5 Minnie Mouse
- Flynn McDonald 6 Jack from the Night Before Christmas
- Sophie Ostojicova 5-6 Owl
- Louise McGrath 6 Fia the Bubble Blower
- Lucy Cormican 5-6 Ruby the Pumpkin Witch
- Irmina Kalzuka 5-6 Pumpkin the Mask
- Alex Tully 5 Toffee Apple
- Aida di Palma 5-6 Pastel Punky
- Cuan O’Donaill 5-6 Keep it mellow
- Roan Mullarkey 5 Darth Vader
- Leo Spring 6 Bat Boy
- Darragh O’Loughlin 5 Bemlin the Gremlin
- Didi Connolly O’Donnell Susie
- Zoe Straton aged 6 Party Pooper
- Oisin Byrne 5 The wheels on the bus
- Jude Dunne 5 Terrifying Turnip
- Kylle 6 Captain Jack
- Kellie Bohan 6 Miss Unicorn
- Rian Cavanagh 6 Bob
- Evie Rose O’Mara 5-6 Unicorn Pumpkin
- Roisin Brennan 5-6 Zooming Pumpkins
- Liam Barry 5-6 Spooky Pete
- Michael Mann 6 Zombie Breaks
- Noemie Ntoko 5-6 Pumpkin Spider
- Jamie Evans 5-6 Spooky Lego Jail
- Lauren Ui Chuis 6 Leaf me alone
- Chloe Verger 5-6 Mrs. Liosa Unicorn
- Saoirse O’Mahony 5 Lightening
- Daniella Ring 5 Woofy
- James Maloney 5 Mr. Grinch
- Joseph Sorohan 5 Where’s Wally at Halloween
- Croiadh Small 5-6 Princess Pumpkin Patch
- Rose Ni Neill 5-6 Sciathan Leathair
- Walter Connolly O’Donnell 6 Billy Bob Joe
7-8 Category Entries
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- Rinko Nishino 7-8 Red Pikmin
- Andrew Doherty 7-8 Tina the Scary Pumpkin
- Aaron O’Sullivan 7 Keven
- Anna Morrissey 7 Princess Sparkle
- Patrick Sorohan 7 Zombie Burger
- Anna Maguire 7 Trash Bag Papermache eco
- Aodh Ui Chuis 7 Pirate Mummy messy
- Sadbh Down 7-8 Unicorn Witch
- Anna Maguire 7 Little One
- Liana Ring 7 Sionni
- Cadhla Guilfoyle 8 Mandolorian + Baby Yoda
- Caoimhe Kavanagh 8 Frankie Frankenstein
- leon donovan 7-8 mickey mouse
- Maeve Moore 8 Maeves Mad Cow
- Andrew Doherty 7-8 Are you going to scream
- Brandon Humphries 8 Mr. Krabs Spongebob
- Daragh Coleman 8 Stormtrooper
- Orla 7-8 Angry Bird
- Nathan Dexie 7 Training and Waiting
- Yoshiharu Tomikawa 7 Orange Cat
- Aoibhe Gahan 8 Melted rainbow on a pumpkin
- Una Donnelly, 7-8, Pussy
- Orla 7-8 Monster Eye
- Ella Byrne 8 Tony the Owl
- Cillian Mullarkey 8 Master Yoda from Starwars
- Kate Rooney 7 Crayola the Unicorn
- Kabir Agnihotri 7-8 years Fall 2020
- Oliwia Sajdyk 8 Tiny little Fox
- Hope Cribbin 7-8 Among Us
- Saibh O’Sullivan 7-8 An Beach Gnothach
- Layla Byrne 8 Party Pumpkin
- Pearl O’Shaughnessy 7 Stripes
- Darragh Doherty 7-8 Are you going to the Dentist
- Ethan Abrams 7-8 Long Eared Owl
- Faye McDonnell 8 Golden Snitch
- Sasha Ostojicova 7-8 Lucky
- Leon Ostojicova 7-8 The Crazy
- Ella Connolly 7-8 Uri
- Sarah Grace Lawlor 7 I’m being 2020 for Halloween
- Millie Murphy 8 Pumpicorn
- Jamie 8 Little Jack
- Brandon Humphries 8 Jack the Pumpkin King Night before Christmas
- Ella May O’Callaghan 8 Skelly Nelly
- Jack Salter 8 Lets keep playing safely
- Eliot Dunne 8 Covid Crazy
- Darragh Doherty 7-8 Max the Pumpkin
- Rebecca Tully 7 Candy
- Lucy Haworth 7 Lion
- Sylvester Kalveka 7-8 Husky Pumpkin
- Orla 7-8 Minion Bob
- Isabelle Maher 8 Pumpkin Villa
- Isabelle May Maher 8 Horrorscope Constellations
- Poppy McDonald 7 Scary Pumpkin
- Danny Lyons 7-8 Covid-19
- Jonathan Mooney 7-8 Spider Pumpkin
- Lua Reynolds 8 Day of the Dead
- Aoife Delaney 7-8 YODA CAT
- Federico Ceranto 7-8 Carvers vs spiders
- AJ 7 Deadpool
- John McGrath 7 Sonic
- Liadain Verling 7-8 Carved Covid
- Dearbhaile Corcoran 7-8 Rainbow pumpkin
- Conor McGinty 8 Blue Bird
- Orla Byrne 7 Ellie the Princess
- William O’Mahony 8 Stabbed Eye Man
- Patrick Senda 8 Happy Holidays
- Holly Flynn 7 Colourful Panda
9-10 Category Entries
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- Lucy Maguire 10 Diakon Eyes
- Florence Cashman Ella Lokmer 9-1 Sadie the spa day lady
- Abby Farrelly 9 Freddie and Fidelma the flamingos
- Katie Smith 9-10 Peek a Boo Pumpkin
- Eabha Coleman 10 A spooky graveyard stroll
- James Cowley Lane Age 9 COVID-19 Pumpkin
- Gabreil and Eleni 9-10 Mental Pumpkin
- Orla Hughes 9 Hamilton Pumpkin
- Eibhlin Barrett 9 Halloween Black Cat Well that’s a turnip for the spooks
- Leo Rooney 9 Olaf
- Hannah Gooding 9-10 Off to Hogwarts!
- Kate Murphy 10 Frank-Kin
- Mia Raftery 10 Student Worries
- Billy Jay Madden 10 Mario
- Andrea Hughes 9-10 Stitch
- Brea Mullarkey 10 Autumn Unicorn
- Mark Burke 10 The Great Pumpkin Famine
- Oisin Comiskey 9-10 The Bull
- Leia Moore 10 Sloth in a tree
- Millie Colley Kenny 10 Orange is sus
- Grace McBride 10 Shining
- Bebhinn O’Mara 9-10 Myself
- Adam Deane 9 Who stole Halloween
- Kayla Redden 9-10 Luna Lovegood
- Victoria Wasik 10 Pennywise from It
- Ailbhe Kavanagh 9 Delvin the Devil
- Cathal Gallagher 9-10 Ghost
- Abaigh McGeough 9-10 Sparky the monster
- Ava Brennan 9-10 Smurfette
- Olivia Wasik 10 Spider Witch
- Kian Rowan 10 The Pumkinater
- Susanna McDonald 9-10 Wonderfully wicked witch
- Kyle 9 Scary Skell
- Caoimhe O’Brien 9-10 Slappy from Goosebumps
- Liam McGinty 9 Pika
- Eric Xu 9 Pumpkin on Holiday
- Ciara Creevey 9 Breaking Out
- Izzy Aspel 9-10 Decoupage Pumpkin
- Bella O’Neill 9-10 Stitch
- Ruby Brennan 9-10 The Witch
- Rhys Connolly 9-10 Out of this World
- Lucy Maguire 10 Trash Bag papermache eco pumpkin
- Elliot Murray 9 BB8 from Starwars
- Liam and Peadar O’Neill 9-10 Beyblade Burst
- Charlie McCloskey 9-10 A stranger Halloween
- Thomas Carey 9-10
- Aoife Morrissey 9 My World
11-18 Category Entries
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- Joan 12 Keep Safe
- Conor Hillary 13 Two faced pumpkin
- Jake O’Shaughnessy 11 The Virus
- Kim Tobin 11-18 SpiderHalloween
- Tara Power 11-18 The Corpse Bride
- Nadine Small 11-18 Stay safe, Stay Home and save lives
- Leah Kelly 15 Mike Wasawski
- Isibéal- 11 – sad kitten polly
- Eva Moore 12 Pampered Pumpkin
- Elisha Gallagher 11-18 Minion
- Anthony Good 12 The Nightmare before Christmas
- Laila Ryan 12 Halloween Vase
- Alanah McKenzie 13 Have a safe Halloween
- Siun Cummins 14 Even stranger things
- Filip Sajdyk 11 Autumn House
- Sonny Carey 11-18
- Lochlainn Crowe 11-18 Imposter
- Isabel O’Mara 11-18 Doughnut Pumpkin
- Rianna Cribbin 11-18 Good vs Evil
- Favour 11-18 The Witch
- Darragh Byrne 11-18 The Imposter
- Ciara Lavery 11 Donald Trumpkin
- Freya Fallon 12 Among Us
- Yuzuki Tomikawa 11 Animal Crossing Pumpkin
- Esther Patricia Ntoko 11-18 Firework Pumpkin Web
- Sophie Blee 12 Yummy Burger
- Katie Cowley Lane – age 11 – Stinky Joe
- Eabha Caragher 11-18 Amir Amir AKA Moustache Man
- Hannah McAuliffe 12 Flower Fiesta
- Sarah Tobin 11-18 Coke
- Emma Kelly 13 Haunted Castle
- Orlaith Brannigan 11-18 Totoro
- Leah Mann 11 We are the vaccine
- Enya Silkena 13 Spooky Graveyard
- Jill Giles 11-18 Covid Bat BW
- Emma Carvill 11-18 Wicked Witch of the West
- Mia Colley Kenny 14 Boo
- Sonia Gieros Tchorz 12 We Hate Covid
- Grainne Brannigan 11-18 Ron Weasley
- Skirmante Mackevicius 11-18 Banshee
- Juliette Lawless Dodeman 11-18 Grumpy face
- Maisie Smith 11-18 The Vegetable Ensemble
- Ronan McNally 11-18 Toothy Man
- Ryan Wang 11 Alien came to the town
- Lauren Coffey 11-18 BatGirl
- Jill Giles 11-18 Covid Bat
- Eve O’Sullivan 11 Joe
- Nathan Millar 11-18 Evil Nun
- Jack Eustace 11 Mr Prickles
- Robert 11 Spiderman
- Grace Boyd 11-18 The Devil
- Johnny Tobin 11-18 Deaumaur
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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- 4th Class St. Marys Environmental Fighting Covid
- Niamh Ui Chuis Env I’M a habitat
Family and Group Category Entries
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- St. Marys Primary school Scary Spider
- Victoria Family HallowCat
- Ruths House Childminding 6 to 12 In our Bubble Pumpkins
- Chloe Byrne 4 Family Dumbo
- 1st Class St. Marys Group Friendly Spider
- Jenny and Jack Dunne Family The Witches Brew
- Bridget and Izzy Aspel Family Bride Pumpkin
- Jane O’Gorman Family Zuma
- Jude OVP Family Group Covid-19 Captured
- Carly and Tammy 2 and mammy Cocomelon
- Sylvia, Sylvester, Sylvester, Irmina Kaluzka Family Halloween Chicken
- 6th Class St. Marys Dungarvan Creepy Cat
- Collier Family Pumpkin Pig
- Piper Leighton Celine Family Tinker Bell
- Tammy Carney with children age 2,7, 11
- Ni Dhomhnaill Family We all in this together
- Allannah MacMahon Family Finding Fungie
- Collier Family Baby Yoda
- Piper Leighton Celine Family Ironman
- Malgorzata Karpinska Family Mrs. Autumn
- Senior Infants St. Marys Frankenstein
- Ellie and Lucy Monaghan Family Yoda and Chewbacca in a Glasnevin Galaxy far far away.
- Salter Family The Real Pot of Gold
- Piper Leighton Celine Group Husky Dog
- Nicole Blanc and Family Frozen
- Booma Childcare Group Even minions show care
- Elaine and Emilie 4 Family The Crazy Cousin
- Senior Infants St Marys Ms Kiely Group Batty
- Lilla Farkas and Patrik Akyol 15 and 4 Pumkin Ildibo and Pumpkin Peter
- Campbell family Don’t let your Mask slip
- Ursula Small Family Bluegey Man the Fish
- Miss Kiely St Marys Group Day of the Dead
- Alex Byrne family Alex’s puppy pumpkin
- O’Sullivan Family Angler Pumpkin
- McAuliffe Family Bootiful Florals
- Byana Maksimovic Family Peppa Pig for my little girl
- Burke family 4 and 10 Jail House Squash
- Cribbin Family Cribbin Army
- St. Marys NS Dungarvan Spooky Town
- Carly and Tammy 2 and mammy Poppy from Trolls
- Lucy and Anna Maguire 10 and 7 Eco group
- Senior Infants St. Marys Dungarvan Halloween Cauldron
- Noah Byrne 7 Pikachu
- Eleanor McKenna 10 Family Up Up and Away
- Piper Leighton Celine Family Minions
- Emily and Lucy Bermingham Family Mr. Pumpkill
- Charlie family Godzilla
To see the winners’ gallery only « click here