GLASGOW Film Festival has presented the 2017 Margaret Tait Award to Glasgow-based artist Sarah Forrest, pictured.
Forrest will receive a £10,000 commission to produce a new work to be presented at Glasgow Film Festival in 2018.
Supported by Creative Scotland and LUX, the Award was founded in 2010 to support experimental and innovative artists working within film and moving image.
Margaret Tait (1918–99) was an Orcadian filmmaker and writer whose film poems, hand-painted animations and documentaries were pioneering in the field of experimental filmmaking.
After studying at Duncan of Jordanstone, Dundee, Sarah Forrest gained her masters from Glasgow School of Art in 2010, during which time she also studied at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam.
She is going to use the money to make a film on the Isle of Lewis which will explore the idea of "second sight" and the Brahan Seer. "I like making fiction that peels back the skin of reality," she said.
Forrest has held solo exhibitions at CCA in Glasgow (Two Solo Shows: Sarah Forrest and Mounira Al Sohl in 2013), Supplement in London (I Left it on Page 32 in 2014) and Kunstraum Dusseldorf in Germany (Again, it objects in 2016). Her work has been presented at international film festivals, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2014) and she has completed numerous residencies, amongst these the inaugural Margaret Tait Residency in 2012.
The Award is given to an experimental Scottish or Scotland-based artist who has established a significant body of work within film and moving image over the past 3–10 years, and who is able to demonstrate the impact the Award will have upon their practice.
glasgowfilm.org/glasgow-film-festival
CRAFT Scotland has announced that the American Craft Council has specially invited Scottish makers to their flagship Baltimore show in 2017.
An industry panel has joined the agency in selecting 20 makers to be part of a Scottish Showcase during the retail days, February 24-26. The ACC Baltimore is a five-day show with two days for trade, followed by three retail days where the show is open for the public.
The show’s retail days attract approximately 20,000 visitors and are "a must-see for serious craft collectors and craft enthusiasts alike".
craftscotland.org
SCOTTISH singer-songwriter, Horse McDonald, is to take her award-winning one-woman play, Careful, on the road for a Scottish spring tour.
First performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2016, it was written with writer and comedian Lynn Ferguson, directed by Maggie Kinloch and produced by The Gilded Balloon.
It will tour to 18 venues throughout Scotland from March 16 to May 27.
After each performance, Horse will be joined on stage by director Maggie Kinloch for a Q&A session.
gildedballoon.co.uk
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