Down student wins Texaco Top Prize in Children’s Art Competition
17-year old Down student artist Shóna McAteer from the Sacred Heart Grammar School in Newry has won a top prize in this year’s 70th Texaco Children’s Art Competition.
Shóna won a Special Merit Award for her artwork entitled ‘Soaring’, which Final Adjudicator, Gary Granville, Professor Emeritus of Education at the National College of Art and Design, said: “demonstrated high levels of skill and imagination”.
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 Down and counties throughout Ireland have had their talents recognised and their creativity commended.]
The Texaco Children’s Art Competition is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year.
