Issued June 10th 2008
TEXACO SUCCESS BRINGS JAPAN INVITATION TO CLARE STUDENT
DUBLIN, IRELAND 17 June 2008 – Clare student Lucy Carragher is to visit Japan where her prizewinning entry in this year’s 54th Texaco Children’s Art Competition will feature in an exhibition in Tokyo hosted by Japan’s International Foundation for Arts and Culture.
Accompanied by her mother Jane, Lucy will travel to Tokyo to attend the opening of the exhibition which takes place from 29 July – 2 August at the prestigious Ueno Royal Museum in Tokyo.
A 17-year old pupil at St. Anne's Community College, Killaloe, Lucy hit the headlines recently when her colourful painting entitled 'Self Portrait' took the €2,000 top prize in the Texaco competition along with the €1,500 UTV/ Texaco Young Artist Commission.
The purpose behind the International Foundation for Arts and Culture is to provide an international showcase for young people to engage in their artistic exploration of the world and to nurture a broader understanding of the experiences and events that impact on the younger generation across different cultures. Last year, some 5,000 students from Japan, Australia, Egypt, Cambodia and China submitted works to the festival.
The invitation to Lucy and her mother includes return air tickets, hotel accommodation and meals, a one day guided tour of Tokyo and the services of a translator for the duration of their stay. It was sent to her via the Irish Embassy in Japan and came as a direct result of her success in winning the top Texaco prize.
Her painting will be exhibited alongside some 300 other art works by students from Japan and elsewhere. Included in these will be nine other winning paintings from the Texaco competition, including one by another Clare student, Cillian Boyd, whose entries featured prominently amongst the prizewinners in previous years.
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Notes to editors
- Texaco is a Chevron company brand. Chevron Corporation is one of the world's leading integrated energy companies, with subsidiaries that conduct business across the globe. The company's success is driven by the ingenuity and commitment of approximately 59,000 employees who operate across the energy spectrum. Chevron explores for, produces and transports crude oil and natural gas; refines, markets and distributes transportation fuels and other energy products; manufactures and sells petrochemical products; generates power and produces geothermal energy; provides energy efficiency solutions; and develops and commercializes the energy resources of the future, including biofuels and other renewables. Chevron is based in San Ramon, California. More information about Chevron is available at www.chevron.com.
- There are approximately 230 Texaco-branded service stations in Ireland and more than 1,300 across Europe. Chevron (Ireland) Limited also provides aviation refueling services at Dublin and Shannon Airports, has an extensive commercial and industrial fuels and lubricants business and holds an equity stake in four fuel storage facilities in the Republic of Ireland. For more information, visit www.texaco.ie.
- For further information about the Texaco Children’s Art Competition, contact Don Hall/Maeve Barry, Hall PR on 01 660 9377 (office), 087-2552699 (mobile) or email pr@hallpr.ie. For more information on Chevron (Ireland) Ltd, contact Daniel Schraibman on +44 207 719 4459 or email danielschraibman@chevron.com.
- Texaco's community activities in Ireland include its long running support for the Texaco Children's Art Competition as well as the long-established Texaco Sportstars Awards and the recently introduced Texaco Sportstars Bursary programme.