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Diocese of Cashel, Ferns and Ossory

Winners List – Bishop’s Art Competition 2022

Winners List – Bishop’s Art Competition 2022
news July 1, 2022

Overall winner

Congratulations to Michael Kononov

6th class

The Model School

Kilkenny

Michael’s thought process when planning his painting:

The theme of the Bishop’s Poster competition was HOPE this year.  My poster shows four situations connecting people, freedom and hope.

The top left picture represents the freedom that is felt when you fly a kite.

The top right picture represents the sense of happiness you feel when you achieve a goal like climbing to the top of a mountain.

The bottom left shows friendship, spending time with friends around the campfire.

The bottom right picture represents hope for space travel and future space exploration. When we achieve something we hope to inspire others by sharing our experience with them.

The centre of the picture shows the words “Hope connects us”. The vines connect the four pictures as well as the letters in the word HOPE. I really enjoyed creating this poster.

Comment from Carolyn Good, a member of the Bishop’s Advisory Committee, about the competition:

Back in December 2021 Bishop Burrows was keen to bring back the Bishop’s Art Competition but was conscious not to put schools already stressed under more pressure, and so a scaled back competition was launched. The theme this time was Hope.
Bishop Burrows, unable to visit schools in person, sent a video to all of the primary schools in early January 2022 coinciding with Epiphany. He reminded the children and school staffs, of the hopefulness of the Magi on their journey and announced the theme for both the Art Competition and the Choral Festivals.
Schools across the United Dioceses took part and the judges were impressed by the very high standard of entries. The judges were hard at work in the Diocesan office sorting through many, many beautiful art works and making their decisions. The prizes were posted out to schools this year in plenty of time so that they could be presented either in school assemblies or at the school’s own Choral Festival.
The overall winner was Michael Kononov, a 6th class pupil in The Model School, Kilkenny. Michael’s picture is colourful, engaging, expertly drawn and has a simple, clear message “Hope Connects Us”. Michael’s message reminds us of exactly what Bishop Burrows articulated in a meeting about this challenging process last December, in a time when we couldn’t easily meet in person, when some events could come back and some couldn’t, when we needed to reconnect, Hope was needed and it did indeed, connect us.

FULL LIST OF WINNERS

Prize Name Class School Diocese
         
Overall Michael Kononov 6th Kilkenny Model School Ossory
 
Special Prize James Hearns ASD Clonenagh NS Mountrath Ossory
Special Prize Tyrone Dempsey ASD Clonenagh NS Mountrath Ossory
Special Prize Mollie Mai ASD Clonenagh NS Mountrath Ossory
 
1st Saoirse Cleary Junior Infants St Iberius NS Wexford Ferns
2nd Ben Peavoy Junior Infants Wandesforde NS Castlecomer Ossory
3rd Cadhla Free Junior Infants Clonenagh NS Mountrath Ossory
Highly Commended Jasmin Ogbonyomi Junior Infants Maryborough NS Leighlin
 
1st Sarah O’Dwyer Senior Infants Kilkenny Model School Ossory
2nd Robyn Boyle Senior Infants St Iberius NS Wexford Ferns
3rd Max Byrne Senior Infants Kilcommon NS Ferns
Highly Commended Bella Barrington Lucas Senior Infants Kilkenny Model School Ossory
 
1st Evan Wall 1st Carrigduff NS Bunclody Ferns
2nd Emily Willis 1st Carrigduff NS Bunclody Ferns
3rd Clodagh Cantlon 1st St Mary’s NS Bagenalstown Leighlin
Highly Commended Isabella Muth 1st Kilkenny Model School Ossory
 
1st Maeve Armitage 2nd Clonenagh NS Mountrath Ossory
2nd Conor Ryan 2nd Kilkenny Model School Ossory
3rd Evan McLane 2nd St Mary’s NS Bagenalstown Leighlin
Highly Commended Orán Best 2nd Kilcommon NS Ferns
 
1st Kryill Pershenkov 3rd Gorey Central School Ferns
2nd Isabelle Murray 3rd St Iberius NS Wexford Ferns
3rd Tristan Kelly 3rd Kilcommon NS Ferns
Highly Commended Iris Roulston 3rd St Iberius NS Wexford Ferns
 
1st Luke Tully 4th St Edan’s NS Ferns Ferns
2nd Alex Cotorobai 4th St Mary’s NS Bagenalstown Leighlin
3rd Ruth Peppard 4th Kilkenny Model School Ossory
3rd Ben Doran Keenan 4th All Saint’s NS Carnew Ferns
Highly Commended Jasmine Balhuc 4th St Iberius NS Wexford Ferns
Highly Commended Rosie Whelan 4th Kiltegan NS Leighlin
 
1st Jamie Conway 5th Carrigduff NS Bunclody Ferns
2nd Robert Murphy 5th Wandesforde NS Castlecomer Ossory
3rd Anna Hunter 5th St Mary’s Parochial School Clonmel Lismore
Highly Commended Hannah Murray 5th St Iberius NS Wexford Ferns
Highly Commended Vika O’Keefe 5th St James’s NS Lismore
 
1st Freya Lowe 6th Shillelagh NS Leighlin
2nd Lauren Hogan 6th Kilcommon NS Ferns
3rd Tessa Fox 6th Stratford Lodge NS Leighlin
Highly Commended Becky Olsen Byrne 6th Kilcommon NS Ferns

See all the 1st prize winning entries below: