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Creative Scotland shortlist announced
Twenty Scottish artists, including Alasdair Gray, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Richard Demarco, have been selected to go through to the final round of the Creative Scotland Awards 2003. The short-list honours a wide range of artists, including architects, designers, writers, poets, musicians, visual artists and filmmakers. Demarco, who has been Director of the Demarco Gallery since 1966 and exhibited at least 38 solo shows, as well as holding a number of board positions, has proposed to collaborate on a new touring exhibition. Meanwhile, writer and painter Alasdair Gray would use the award to restore murals he painted between 1955 and 1975, something he has previously never had the means to do. But this year, up-and-coming talent also joins the ranks of established artists. Nicola McCartney, who won the TMA Best Children's Play Award for Lifeboat in 2002, was selected with her plans to write the first draft of a novel. In addition, sound artist Zoe Irvine, 30, is working towards producing a sound work and publication inspired by the writing of W G Sebald. The selected artists will be invited to submit further proposals for their projects before the ten winners, who will each receive £30,000 in prize money, are announced in March 2003. Graham Berry, Director of the Scottish Arts Council, said although Scottish creativity is recognised abroad, artists rarely achieve recognition in their own nation. 'The Creative Scotland Awards are intended to restore some balance,' he commented. 'We welcome and value the contribution artists make to our lives and our development as a cultural and cultured nation.' For the full Creative Scotland Award shortlist, go to: www.scottisharts.org.uk/content/press_release.cfm?press_id=199
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