Four Waterford students have won top prizes in this year’s 66th Texaco Children’s Art Competition.
All were winners of Special Merit Awards for artworks that Final Adjudicator, Professor Declan McGonagle said: “were imaginative and displayed high levels of skill”.
They were Mary Bradfield (age 16), a pupil at Ard Scoil Na nDéise, Dungarvan; Emily Hennessy (13) from St. Angela's Secondary School, Waterford; Erika Naughton (9) from Holycross National School, Tramore and Andrew Coyle (6) from Dunhill National School.
Erika Naughton's piece (age 9)
Emily Hennessy's picture (age 13)
Mary Bradfield's artwork (age 16)
Andrew Coyle's picture (age 6)
With the onset of Covid-19, the Competition had to be extended over a longer period this year with delays to the final adjudication process and the announcement of winners
As a result, activities normally undertaken during April and May – traditionally, the introduction of winners to the media and the formal presentation of prizes – had to be set aside as a consequence of which prizes will be delivered by hand without the possibility of an awards ceremony.
