MINEHEAD artist Toni Davey has won two of the top prizes at this year’s Wells Art Contemporary international visual arts competition and selling exhibition, it was announced at a reception in the Wells Bishop’s Palace.

Toni’s piece, ‘Pleasure Dome’, designed to celebrate 250 years of circus, won the DAC Beachcroft Space Prize and will be exhibited in Bristol early next year.

It also won the JGM Gallery Exhibition Prize and will be included in a joint exhibition with three other winning artists at the JGM Gallery next to the Royal College of Art in London in 2019.

WAC chairman Paddy O’Hagan said that in six years the event had gone from “thoughts around the kitchen table” to an internationally renowned competition that received almost 1,400 entries from 26 different countries, and offered £20,000 in prize-money.