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Áine Newsome’s artwork which won a Special Merit Award in the Texaco Children’s Art Competition.
TWO students from Tralee schools have won top prizes in this year’s 70th Texaco Children’s Art Competition.
Siqi Yao (age 16), a pupil at Presentation Secondary School, Tralee and Áine Newsome (15), from Mercy Mountawk Secondary School were both were winners of Special Merit Awards for artworks that Final Adjudicator, Gary Granville, Professor Emeritus of Education at the National College of Art and Design, said ‘demonstrated high levels of skill and imagination’.
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Siqi Yao’s artwork which won a Special Merit Award in the Texaco Children’s Art Competition.
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 Kerry and counties throughout Ireland have had their talents recognised and their creativity commended.
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