Creative Limerick students take home top art prizes

THREE Limerick students have won top prizes in this year’s 69th Texaco Children’s Art Competition.

In Category G, second prize was won by Emma Comber, 17, from Catherine McAuley School, Limerick, for her artwork entitled ‘It's In The Eyes'.

Her work is described by Final Adjudicator, Professor Gary Granville as “a working of the human eye that is a most striking fantasia of representation.”

Last year, Emma won a Special Merit Award in the same category of the competition.

In addition, two Limerick winners each won Special Merit Awards for artworks that Professor Granville said “were imaginative and displayed high levels of skill and creativity”.

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They were Caleb Morris, 15, from Coláiste Íde agus Iosef in Abbeyfeale and Teresa Kennedy, 14, from Coláiste Iósaef in Kilmallock.

The Texaco Children’s Art Competition is regarded as the longest-running sponsorship in the history of arts sponsoring in Ireland, that dates back to the very first competition held in 1955.

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