Kildare students win top prizes in Texaco Children's Art Competition

Six Kildare students have won top prizes in this year’s 70th Texaco Children’s Art Competition.

In the 9-11 year age category, Danil Korolko (age 10) from Chóca Naofa Kilcock, won third prize for a work entitled ‘The Big Bang’. Danil’s artwork is described by Final Adjudicator, Gary Granville, Professor Emeritus of Education at the National College of Art and Design as “art through which the artist gives us his unique and vivid impression of the original ‘Big Bang’.”

In addition, five Kildare winners each won Special Merit Awards for artworks that Professor Granville said ‘demonstrated high levels of skill and imagination’.

They were Joseph Finn (16), a pupil at Salesian College, Celbridge; Ellen Tierney (15) from St. Mary's College, Naas; Xinyang Lin (8) from Allenwood, Naas and 14-year olds Lily Seery and Róisín Doody, both pupils at St. Wolstan's Community School, Celbridge.

No strangers to the Competition, Róisín and Ellen both won Special Merit Awards in 2021.

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 Kildare and counties throughout Ireland have had their talents recognised and their creativity commended.