Scottish Arts Council announces shortlist for 2006 Creative Scotland Awards
10/01/2006
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Twenty two of Scotland’s leading artists have been shortlisted for this year’s Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Awards. |
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Musicians, new media artists, writers, visual artists and poets are among the shortlist for the prestigious lottery-funded awards which were initiated in 2000 to reward, honour and celebrate Scotland’s leading artists and help raise the profile of the arts by providing up to 10 of Scotland’s most talented artists with £30,000 to realise their creative ideas in a major project.
Previous award recipients include poet Kathleen Jamie whose collection of poems ‘The Tree House’ won the Forward Prize for poetry in 2004 and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year in 2005 and novelist Bernard MacLaverty who used his 2003 award to direct a short film based on Seamus Heaney’s ‘Bye Child’ poem which was later nominated for a BAFTA.
This year’s awards panel, chaired by Leader of Glasgow City Council Steven Purcell, includes Director of the Fruitmarket Gallery Fiona Bradley and Associate Director (New Work) at the National Theatre of Scotland John Tiffany as well as a number of previous Creative Scotland Award recipients, including composer Sally Beamish and new media artist Zoë Irvine who launched her Creative Scotland project, Dial-a-Diva, before Christmas. The panel will announce the recipients of this year’s awards at a ceremony in Glasgow in March.
Graham Berry, Chief Executive of the Scottish Arts Council said: “The Creative Scotland Awards provide artists with the opportunity to experiment across artforms, develop new collaborations, expand their skills and realise their creative visions in a major project, helping to raise the profile of the arts in Scotland.
“The calibre of applications this year was of an extremely high standard and it is fantastic to see such a diverse range of projects on the shortlist, demonstrating the strength of artistic talent in this country.”
The 22 shortlisted artists are as follows:
- Rachel Hazell (Edinburgh)
Project: A literary, visual and scientific Antarctic Anthology to commemorate International Polar Year 2007/8.
David Kinloch (Glasgow)
Project: A collection of linked poems inspired by the landscape and paintings that drew Scottish artists to France.
Gerry Loose (Glasgow)
Project: To spend a year in Sunart Oakwoods writing and responding to its geology, history, folklore and language.
James Robertson (Blairgowrie, Perthshire)
Project: To write a novel charting the political and cultural changes in Scotland, from 1945 to 1999.
Anne Lorne Gillies (Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire)
Project: To research, write, compose and perform a collection of original, contemporary Gaelic stories and songs.
Tom Pow (Dumfries)
Project: An exploration in poetry and prose of the shadowy life and work of Thomas Watling, Dumfries Convict Artist; the first professional artist in Botany Bay.
Jim Sutherland (Edinburgh)
Project: To compose a new musical score for a European Parading Orchestra of musicians from four countries.
Paul Moore (Glasgow)
Project: A suite of music and animated 3-D images inspired by James Clerk Maxwell's "Beautiful Equations".
Anthea Haddow (Glasgow)
Project: To direct and compose a solo project in music and film celebrating the life of Alma Rose.
Rory Boyle (Girvan, Ayrshire)
Project: A one-act opera with libretto to be written by Dilys Rose for younger voices around the themes of child neglect and exploitation.
Harry Barry (Coatbridge Lanarkshire)
Project: A drama/music project telling the story of a boy growing up in the post-war austerity of 1950s Lanarkshire.
Toby Paterson (Glasgow)
Project: A new body of work developed from an architecturally focussed series of journeys through Eastern Europe.
Graham Fagen (Glasgow)
Project: To create and record the performance of the root sounds of Scotland, creating a contemporary art work.
Jacqueline Donachie (Glasgow)
Project: To develop new work in residence within the Department of Clinical and Molecular Genetics at The University of Glasgow.
Stephanie Smith and Edward Stewart (Glasgow)
Project: Research, development and studio-based production of a new body of 'live' sculptural installations.
Mandy McIntosh (Glasgow)
Project: A new series of drawings exploring the creativity of women using rationed resources during World War Two.
Pernille Spence (Dundee)
Project: A series of surprise interventions in the landscape along three of Scotland's busiest commuter rail routes.
Pauline Goldsmith (Glasgow)
Project: To research and stage a live performance installation in Govan Lyceum Theatre fusing vaudeville, cinema and bingo.
Gair Dunlop (Glasgow)
Project: 'Future Tense: life after technology', digital projections, sound and dialogue with the public and experts exploring technocratic Scotland.
Claire Cunningham (Rutherglen, Glasgow)
Project: Research and development of a new performance style based on the enhancement of abilities created by disability.
Murray Grigor (Inverkeithing, Fife)
Project: To unite Grigor's 1972 Cardross Seminary film with a shot-for-shot remake of today's ruin using two screens and a string quintet.
Simon Fildes (Nairn)
Project: Crux: a touring exhibition of video dances and large-scale prints from a Laban-based bouldering notation system.
Notes to editors
- The Scottish Arts Council champions and sustains the arts for Scotland, investing over £60 million from Scottish Executive and National Lottery funding to support and develop artistic excellence and creativity throughout Scotland. Further information is available from our website at www.scottisharts.org.uk
- The Creative Scotland Awards, funded through the National Lottery, were started in 2000 and there are 70 previous recipients of the award.
- The Scottish Arts Council offers up to ten Creative Scotland Awards of £30,000 from National Lottery funding. Awards are made to individual artists with a major record of achievement who live and work in Scotland. The awards provide a unique opportunity to experiment and realise imaginative ideas in a major project.
- For further details about the awards, how to apply, details of previous award recipients and a full list of this year’s awards panel visit www.creativescotland.org.uk
Contact email(s)
media.office@scottisharts.org.uk
Issued by: Scottish Arts Council
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