Duncan Campbell, Scott Myles and Frances Priest have each been awarded £30,000 from Creative Scotland to research and develop new work. They are joined by 36 more artists and creative professionals who have received grants of £5,000 and £15,000 in the January deadline round of the Artists’ Bursaries programme. In total, £440,000 has been awarded across Scotland.
Campbell, who represented Scotland at the 55th Venice Biennale last year and is shortlisted for this year’s Turner Prize, will use the funds to research and develop an idea for a new feature film. Myles, who is represented by The Modern Institute and a Dundee Fellow at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, will take two years to re-invigorate the thinking behind his research-based practice, culminating in the production of large-scale artworks. Priest, who has an expanded ceramics practice that incorporates making, design and participatory practices will spend a concentrated period in the studio to develop a new body of work.
Selected through a process of peer review by a panel convened for this bursary round, the jurors were: Kitty Anderson, curator at The Common Guild; Lizelle Bisschoff, founder of Africa in Motion Film Festival; Carol Main, director of Live Music Now Scotland; Peter Urpeth, director (Writing & Publishing) of Emergents Creatives; Sophia Yadong Hao, curator, Cooper Gallery, DJCAD; Frank McConnell, founding member of Scottish Dance Theatre and Erica Morrison, chief executive of the National Gaelic Arts Agency.
Other artists amongst the bursary recipients include Lotte Gertz, Nic Green, Kathryn Hinton, Rob Churm, Ross Collins, Donna Rutherford, Laura Yuile and a-n/AIR members Roxane Permar and Susan Timmins.
A further round of the Artists’ Bursaries programme, which is open to individuals at any stage of their career, is taking applications until 5pm on Monday 4 August. Creative Scotland will also be announcing the launch of its new open project funding routes for 2014/15 this summer with applications open from October.
Also on a-n.co.uk:
Artists’ Stories: Scott Myles by Chris Hammonds
People and Place by Roxane Permar
