City hopes landmark will ‘rise again’ after blaze
DANISH firefighters were still at work extinguishing the last pockets of a fire that destroyed a 400-yearold Copenhagen landmark a day after the blaze began.
“This is sad, so sad,” said Mikkel Jensen (44), a civil servant, as he looked up at the twisted scaffolding still clinging to the ruins of the city’s Old Stock Exchange.
The building, which dates from 1615 and is named the Boersen in Danish, is known for its green copper roof and distinctive 56-metre spire in the shape of four intertwined dragon tails.
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BEST OF THE REST: (top l-r) Category B winner Darragh Granahan (15) and Category C winner Charlotte Greham (12); (bottom l-r) Category D winner Emily Coffey (11), Category E winner Sinéad Azkorbebeitia (8) and Category G winner James Moonan (18)
YOUNG Co Antrim artist Charley Bell (17) has been chosen as the overall winner of this year’s 70th Texaco Children’s Art Competition — taking first prize in the senior 16-18 years age category.
Her winning work, for which she receives a prize of €1,500, is entitled Anticipation and is a painstakingly detailed portrait study in coloured pencils.
In choosing it as the overall prize winner, Gary Granville of the National College of Art and Design described Charley’s artwork as “an exceptionally well executed portrait”
He added that the artwork tells of an ‘aged serenity’, of a full life with a wealth of experience and wisdom.”
Professor Granville, competition adjudicator and chairman
of the judging panel, said: “This wonderful work of art welldeserves the top award in this year’s Texaco Children’s Art Competition,”
Charley, a student at Methodist College Belfast, said: “I like working with portraits and when I saw this photo the detailed expression on the woman’s face jumped out at me immediately. I knew it would be challenging.”