Scoil Bhride pupil a winner in Texaco Children's Art

A work entitled ‘Mighty Finn’ by 12-years old Kilcullen student artist Della Cowper-Gray, from Scoil Bhríde, is one of four Kildare artworks to have won top prizes in this year’s 66th Texaco Children’s Art Competition.

All were winners of Special Merit Awards for artworks that Final Adjudicator, Professor Declan McGonagle said 'were imaginative and displayed high levels of skill'.

Other Kildare winners were Ross McHale (15), from Patrician Secondary School, Newbridge; Sophie Chew (11) and Arwen Boyle (6), both from Presentation Girls' School, Maynooth.

With the onset of Covid-19, the Competition had to be extended over a longer period this year with delays to the final adjudication process and the announcement of winners.  As a result, activities normally undertaken during April and May — traditionally, the introduction of winners to the media and the formal presentation of prizes — had to be set aside as a consequence of which prizes will be delivered by hand without the possibility of an awards ceremony.

Pictured above, clockwise from to left, works by Arwen Boyle, Sophie Chew, Delia Cowper-Gray, and Ross McHale. 

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