Photo : Texaco campaigners Tom Roche and Peadar King hand in a letter to the Director of Highlanes Gallery in Drogheda, Co Louth, requesting that Highlanes Gallery discontinue their association with the Texaco Children’s Art Competition. Photo curtesy ©Just Forests. Feel free to use it but credit Just Forests-thank you.
Highlanes Municipal Art Gallery in Drogheda, Co Louth, cuts its ties with Texaco Children’s Art Competition.
Friday 1 October 2021
On the 12th March 2020, Just Forests wrote to Ms. Aoife Ruane, Director, Highlanes Municipal Art Gallery, Drogheda, Co. Louth regarding her role as ‘adjudicator’ of the 66th Texaco Children’s Art Competition. (Please see letter dated 12 March 2020 below)
As part of his campaigning, Mr Roche, along with Mr King, adjunct professor for international relations at University College Cork, met with the director of Highlanes Gallery, Aoife Ruane, last year. They handed her a letter (see below).
The gallery in Drogheda has hosted the annual exhibition of paintings from the Texaco Children’s Art competition.
Both Mr Roche and Mr King said they were welcomed by Ms Ruane who told them she would not be acting as a judge in the competition again.
Mr King said: “She accepted our bona fides and she took on board what we were saying and said they would not continue to have any association with the Texaco Children’s Art competition.”
Ms. Ruane very kindly treated both of us to lunch in the Highlanes Gallery Restaurant afterwards and thanked us for bringing this matter to her attention.
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