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Lucia's artwork won a Special Merit Award.
A County Derry student has won a top prize in this year’s 72nd Texaco Children’s Art Competition.
Lucia Heaney (age 16), a pupil at Rainey Endowed School, Magherafelt won a Special Merit Award in the 16-18 years age category for her work entitled ‘My Ladies’.
Her artwork is described by Final Adjudicator – Irish visual artist, curator and educator – Pauline O'Connell, as ‘imaginative and demonstrated high levels of skill and creativity’.
The Texaco Children’s Art Competition is popularly regarded as the longest-running sponsorship in the history of arts sponsoring in Ireland, with an unbroken history that dates back to the very first Competition held in 1955.
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This year, as has been the case throughout its life, it has been a platform on which young artists from Derry and counties throughout Ireland have had their talents recognised and their creativity commended.
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