THERE’S no lack of creativity in secondary schools across Limerick as four students nabbed top prizes in this year’s Texaco Children’s Art Competition.
18-year-old Mengzin Zhuang from Mungret Community College and 16-year-old Emma Casey, who attends Coláiste Íde agus Iosef in Abbeyfeale, won a Special Merit Award at this year’s awards.
And it was a double whammy in Coláiste Chiaráin in Croom with a prize for 14-year-old Sonia Holmes and 16-year-old Eva Liang, who was also awarded a Special Merit last year.
Final adjudicator, Irish visual artist curator and educator Pauline O’Connell, said the artworks “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 the arts 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, the competition provides a platform on which young artists from Limerick and counties throughout Ireland can have their talents recognised and their creativity commended.
