Monday 19th July 2010

DUBLIN, 19 JULY 2010 – The Cork Vision Centre at St Peter’s on North Main St, Cork is to be the venue for an exhibition of winning paintings in this year’s 56th Texaco Children’s Art Competition which opens there on Tuesday 3 August.

Included among the 161 exhibits will be works by 13 Cork students who took top prizes in the Competition.  They are Aleksandra Fudali (16), a student at St. Brogan’s College, Bandon who won second prize (€1,000) in the top 16-17 years age category for her work entitled ‘Portrait of a Girl’ and Enda O’Riordan (16) from Christian Brothers College, Sidney Hill, Cork who won third prize (€750) in the same age category for his work entitled ‘Disconnected’.  Another top Cork winner whose work will be shown is 11-year old Julie Twomey, a student at Cloghroe NS, Cloghroe, Cork, who won first prize (€250) in the 9-11 years age category for her painting entitled ‘Lucy Looking In’.

Other Cork winners whose works feature in the exhibition are Dana Relja (Bandon Grammar School), Siobhán Gallagher (Saint Aloysius College, Carrigtwohill), Neil O’Brien (Christian Brothers College, Sidney Hill, Cork), Ruby Barrett (Gaelscoil Mhainistir na Corann, Midleton), Evan Regan-O’Broin (Ballinora National School, Waterfall), Roisin Kingston and Una McCarthy (Vinefield Studio Group, Dreeny, Skibbereen), Andreas Bester (Scoil Barra Naofa, Monkstown), Eve Drummond-Mackrill (Montenotte), Muireann O’Brien (Kilworth), Aaron O’Connell (Our Lady of Good Counsel School, Ballincollig) and Jamie Murphy (St Mary’s Special School, Rochestown) all of whom won Special Merit Awards.

The exhibition will be officially opened by Vincent Kelly, Deputy Editor, The Evening Echo at 6pm on Thursday 5 August.  It will continue until Thursday 26 August, opening Tuesday to Saturday, from 10am to 5pm.

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