Hunterhouse students win top prizes in Texaco Children’s Art competition
Two students from Hunterhouse College students have won top prizes in this year’s 72nd Texaco Children’s Art Competition.
Hannah Dougherty (17) and Mia Begnini (17), both from Hunterhouse College were named as winners of Special Merit Awards.
Final Adjudicator, Irish visual artist, curator and educator, Pauline O'Connell said they were “imaginative and demonstrated high levels of skill and creativity”.
The overall winner of the competition was 16 year old Aurianna Hanlon from Loreto Secondary School in Kilkenny.
Her winning work, for which she won Euro1,500, was a self portrait.
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 Antrim and counties throughout Ireland have had their talents recognised and their creativity commended.