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The Texaco Children’s Art Competition is popularly regarded as the longest-running sponsorship in the history of arts sponsoring in Ireland
Four Derry students have won top prizes in this year’s 69th Texaco Children’s Art Competition.
Lucia Heaney (13), a pupil at Rainey Endowed Grammar School in Magherafelt and Anna Gilloway (11) from Gaelcholáiste Dhoire, Dungiven alongside Teddie Curran (3) and Faye Kelly (10), both pupils at Ardnashee Special School and College in Derry, took home top prizes for their artwork.
All were winners of Special Merit Awards for artworks that Final Adjudicator, Professor Gary Granville said ‘were imaginative and displayed high levels of skill and creativity’.
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 Derry and counties throughout Ireland have had their talents recognised and their creativity commended.
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