The Geoffrey Crawshay Scholarship fund was established to enable successful candidates to travel Britain or abroad with the intention of enriching the student's aesthetic experience in a branch of the Fine Arts.
Judy Macklin was the 2006 winner of this award and sought to widen her horizons and experience of landscape, environments and culture by touring extensively across the world and visiting Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and the USA. The primary aim of her study visit was to develop links with fellow artists and printmakers.
During her many months of travel she halted at Tucson in the desert, where The University of Arizona, played host for an extended working period which enabled Judy to create a new series of lithographs and woodcuts. Three portfolio exchanges between students and staff at the School of Art, University of Arizona and the exchange exhibition Earth and Sky: Tucson and Aberystwyth have been a direct result of this collaboration.