Five talented Galway students have won top prizes in this year’s 69th Texaco Children’s Art Competition.
In the 7-8 years age category, the first prize was won by 8-year-old Emily Acheson from Gaelscoil Iarfhlatha, Tuam for her self-portrait.
Her work is described by Final Adjudicator, Professor Gary Granville, as “a work that captures a sense of the person behind the paint.”
Four other Galway students won Special Merit Awards for artworks that Professor Granville said “were imaginative and displayed high levels of skill and creativity.”
They were Lauren Duffy (17) from Presentation College, Tuam; Sadhbh Mitchell (7) from Scoil Mhuire, Moycullen; and Riham Hammar (6) and Blanka Matysiak (6), both pupils at Knocknacarra Educate Together National School.
The Texaco Children’s Art Competition is popularly regarded as the longest-running sponsorship in the history of arts sponsoring in Ireland, with an unbroken history that dates back to the very first Competition held in 1955.
This year, as has been the case throughout its life, it has been a platform on which young artists from Galway and counties throughout Ireland have had their talents recognised and their creativity commended.
