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Creative Scotland Awards shortlist announced
The shortlist for on of the UK’s richest arts award programs has been announced. The Scottish Arts Council National Lottery Creative Scotland Awards have shortlisted twenty-three of Scotland’s leading writers, visual artists, poets, musicians and crafts professionals. The £300,000 awards scheme gives ten artists £30 000 to experiment and realise imaginative ideas in a major project. The Awards are made to individual artists with a major record of achievement who live and work in Scotland, with coordination by the Scottish Arts Council and funding from the National Lottery. This year’s shortlisted projects include poems, chamber operas, portraiture, plays, sculpture and dance. Renowned Scottish harp maker, Mark Norris, has proposed to build a harp that will change colour and emit computer-generated light and images in response to the music played on it. Bill Duncan plans to create a web-based project that will explore the urban mythology of hidden cults in a North East city. Visual artist Mandy McIntosh has proposed to explore the fashion industry and large format photography techniques with an exhibition/installation, whilst choreographer Janice Parker would like to write choreography based on the movement qualities of people with learning disabilities. Graham Berry, Director of the Scottish Arts Council, says: ‘I am delighted by the quality and imagination of the projects shortlisted for this year’s lottery funded Creative Scotland Awards. The shortlisted artists have already made valuable contributions to the development of their artform in Scotland and we are confident that their proposed projects will have a positive and wide-reaching impact on audiences and other artists, both in Scotland and the rest of the UK. While other awards schemes offer prizes to artists for a completed piece of work, our Creative Scotland Awards allow artists to devote time to creating a particularly inspirational or innovative piece of work, which will boost their career.’ Previous recipients of the Awards have gone on to win some of the UK’s most prestigious arts prizes. Poet Kathleen Jamie’s collection, The Tree House –which won an award in 2001 – won last year’s Forward Prize for poetry, whilst glass Artist Allison Kinnaird won the 2004 Glass Sellers Award for work that she had done as a Creative Scotland Award recipient. The awards will be announced on the 16th of March, 2005 in Edinburgh. For more information, CLICK HERE.
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