Texaco Children’s Art Exhibition Winners’ Exhibition

WINNING ARTWORKS BY ULSTER STUDENTS TO GO ON EXHIBITION AT STRULE ARTS CENTRE, OMAGH

The top 42 winning artworks from the past two years of the Texaco Children’s Art Competition – in which six works by Ulster students feature – will go on exhibition at Strule Arts Centre, Townhall Square, Omagh.

Hosted by Fermanagh and Omagh District Council, the exhibition will be open to the public each day from Monday to Saturday from 9.30am to 5pm, until it closes on Saturday, 28 February. Admission is free.

Amongst the top Northern Ireland prize-winners from the 70^th Texaco Children’s Art Competition whose artworks feature in the exhibition is the overall 2024 competition winner Charley Bell, from Methodist College Belfast, who won first prize in the senior 16-18 years age category for her painting entitled ‘Anticipation’. Also exhibiting is a work entitled ‘L’Ombre’ by Antrim’s Zara Craig, from Ballyclare High School – second prize in Category G of the competition which is reserved for artists with additional needs. Other 2024 works from young Ulster artists to feature at the exhibition are three paintings from Donegal students: ‘Man to Machine’, by Weronika Jarosinska, from Loreto Secondary School Letterkenny – second prize in the 16-18 years age category; ‘Granda’s Turn!’, by Kerri Doherty, from Abbey Vocational School, Donegal Town – second prize in the 14-15 years age category; and ‘Moving Oceans’, by Charles (Dominic) Gallagher, from St. Mary’s National School, Castlefinn, Lifford – second prize in the 6 years and under age category.

A top Ulster prize-winning artwork from last year’s 71^st Texaco Children’s Art Competition featuring in the exhibition is ‘My Bro, My Bun’ by Cavan student, Pierre Gaultier Swords, from Corlurgan National School, who won first prize in the 7-8 years age category.