South Dublin students win top prizes at Texaco Children’s Art Competition

Gary Ibbotson 13 Apr 2023
Sara Drobova’s (15) artwork from St Andrew’s College Junior School, Blackrock.

Fifteen south Dublin students were amongst 36 young artists from the county to have won top prizes in this year’s 69th Texaco Children’s Art Competition.

All were winners of Special Merit Awards for artworks that Final Adjudicator, Professor Gary Granville said ‘were imaginative and displayed high levels of skill and creativity’.

They were Kate Glanville (age 15), a pupil at Newpark Comprehensive School, Blackrock; Lucy Bradbury (12) from Loreto Abbey, Dalkey; Finn Murphy-Best (12) from St. Joseph’s BNS Terenure; Meixi Hua (11) from the Teresian School, Donnybrook; Aira Patkar Barve (8) from Loreto Primary School, Dalkey; Oscar Shi (8) from Willow Park Junior School, Blackrock; Saipriya Behere (7) from Our Lady Of Mercy Convent School, Booterstown; Agatha Shakirzianova (5) from Nord Anglia International School, Leopardstown; Eddie Ryan (6) from Ranelagh Multi-Denomination School; Sara Drobova (15) and Bella Shields (11), both pupils at St. Andrew’s College Junior School, Blackrock; Amelia Scallan (14) and Anna Chiam (12), both from Loreto College Foxrock; and Emily Hambardzumyan (12) and Rebecca Healy (11), both from St. Brigid’s Girls’ National School, Cabinteely.

No strangers to the Competition, Emily won second prize in the 9-11 years age category last year, whilst Rebecca, Oscar and Aira all won Special Merit Awards in 2020, with Aira also winning a Special Merit Award last year.

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

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