Issued April 25th 2006

KILLALOE STUDENT’S PRIZE-WINNING PAINTING TO FEATURE IN GLÓR EXHIBITION

The Glór Irish Music Centre at Causeway Link, Ennis is to host an exhibition of the top 21 prize-winning paintings in last year’s Texaco Children’s Art Competition. The exhibition will open on Thursday, 12th April and continue until Saturday, 5th May.

Prominent amongst the exhibits will be a work entitled ‘Freedom’ by Christi Olivier a pupil at St. Anne’s Community College, Killaloe. An impressive portrait study of a young girl with windswept hair, the painting won third prize in the 14-15 years age category for Christi pictured here with her parents Cornel and Mario.

This is the third year in which winning entries from the Texaco Children’s
Art Competition have been exhibited at the venue. Admission is free of
charge.

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Editors’ notes

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