Co Wexford pupil wins a top prize at Texaco Children’s Art Competition

Jude who is 7 years old and from St. Kevin's National School, Gorey, won a Special Merit Award for his artwork entitled ‘Jungle Leopard’.

Final Adjudicator, Gary Granville, Professor Emeritus of Education at the National College of Art and Design, said Jude’s work “demonstrated high levels of skill and imagination”.

The Texaco Children’s Art Competition is popularly regarded as the longest-running sponsorship in the history of arts sponsoring in Ireland. It has an unbroken history that dates back to the very first competition which was held in 1955.

This year, as has been the case since it began, it is a platform on which young artists from Wexford and counties throughout Ireland have had their talents recognised and their creativity commended.