Published: 06 May 2014
39 awards totalling £440,000
Thirty nine artists have received a total of £440,000 in bursaries of £5,000, £15,000 and £30,000 to support the ongoing development of their work through Creative Scotland’s Artists' Bursaries programme.
The purpose of the Artists' Bursaries programme is to provide artists and creative professionals with the time and resources to research and develop their work. Open to individuals at any stage in their career, these awards are made to artists that demonstrate a high level of quality, imagination and ambition in their work.
For the January 2014 deadline, Creative Scotland received almost 400 applications to the Artists’ Bursaries programme requesting in excess of £5 million. Thirty nine awards totalling £440,000 were made within the budget available.
Award recipients receiving £30,000 are:
Award recipients receiving £15,000 are:
Award recipients receiving £5,000 are:
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Creative Scotland is the public body that supports the arts, screen and creative industries across all parts of Scotland on behalf of everyone who lives, works or visits here. The budget for the Bursary programme in 2013/14 was £1.45 million to be distributed across three deadlines.
For 2014/15, ahead of the launch of the new open project funding routes to be announced in the summer with applications being accepted from October, there is a final deadline for the bursary programme: 5pm, Monday 4 August 2014. For full details please visit: creativescotland.com/funding/artists-bursaries
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Creative Scotland has established a process of peer review for the Bursaries Programme which provides a range of expert opinion to inform decisions. A Bursary Panel, made up of arts and creative professionals and chaired by Creative Scotland, is convened for each deadline. Its task is to review all the applications received and agree the final awards. The January 2014 panel members were:
Kitty Anderson is Curator at The Common Guild, a visual arts organisation based in Glasgow. She was previously Associate Director of The Modern Institute, Glasgow, and Associate Curator of Frieze Projects, the annual programme of commissions, talks and education at Frieze Art Fair, London. Recent projects with The Common Guild include ‘Some Thing’ by Roman Ondák, ‘Scotland + Venice: Sworn / Campbell / Tompkins’ for the 55th International Art Exhibition, the Venice Biennale and ‘The Foamy Saliva of a Horse’ by Carol Bove (all 2013). Kitty has also realised several freelance projects and contributed to various publications and exhibition catalogues.
Lizelle Bisschoff is a researcher in African film and the founder of the Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival, an annual African film festival taking place in Scotland, founded in 2006 (www.africa-in-motion.org.uk). Lizelle holds a PhD in African cinema from the University of Stirling in Scotland, in which she researched the role of women in African film. She has published widely on sub-Saharan African cinema and regularly attends African film festivals as speaker and jury member. After completing a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship on the emerging East African film industries at the University of Edinburgh’s Centre of African Studies, she is currently a Research Fellow in Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow, where she teaches African cinema and continues her research on the African film industries.
Carol Main is Director of Live Music Now Scotland and Live Music Now International Development (UK) and freelance music journalist, mainly as classical music editor of The List and music reviewer for the Scotsman. She is a member of the Board of Governors of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Board Director of the Association of British Orchestras, the Traditional Music Forum and, until recently, was a member of the Board of Directors of St Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh.
Peter Urpeth is Director (Writing & Publishing) of Emergents Creatives, a social enterprise established in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland to nurture creative talent and creative careers in the writing, publishing, fashion, craft and textiles sectors. For Emergents, Peter focuses on discovering and developing writers and writing projects with commercial potential. Prior to the establishment of Emergents Peter Urpeth was, for 10 years, HI~Arts' Writing Development coordinator. He is a novelist, poet, editor, ghost writer and journalist with more than 30 years experience in publishing having worked for titles as diverse as Time Out magazine and the Stornoway Gazette.
Sophia Yadong Hao is Curator of Exhibitions, Cooper Gallery, and Visual Research Centre at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, where she leads an experimental and cross-disciplinary curatorial programme of commissions, exhibitions, off-site projects, artists’ and writers’ residencies and publications.
Frank McConnell is an award-winning choreographer and founding member of three significant dance companies - Scottish Dance Theatre and two based in the Highlands: Dannsa and plan B, the latter of which he is currently artistic director. He has created work for many dance and theatre companies including Northern Stage (England), Le Groupe de la Place Royale (Canada), and the National Opera in Holland. Frank feels equally at home working with a small community group in Ardross (Scotland). He moved to the Highlands in 1994 to work as dancer-in-residence for Ross and Cromarty District Council and to develop his growing love for Scottish step dancing and Scotland's earlier dance heritage. Frank was one of the first individuals in the UK to be awarded a Fellowship from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA).
Erica Morrison is Chief Executive of the National Gaelic Arts Agency. Erica was educated in Broadford Primary and Portree High School in the Isle of Skye and then graduated from Glasgow University in 1991 with an Honours degree in Celtic Studies - after which she studied Media and Communication Studies at Sabhal Mor Ostaig. Erica featured in the Gaelic soap opera ‘Machair’ for six years. Prior to Pròiseact nan Ealan, Erica was employed as the Western Isles Council’s Gaelic Arts Development Officer. Erica lives in Point in the Isle of Lewis with her husband Alasdair and two of a family.
Carol Dunbar is part of the senior management team of the Pier Arts Centre Stromness, Orkney with responsibility for education and learning. She studied tapestry and printmaking at Edinburgh College of Art, completing a Post Graduate Diploma in 1979. She has been a board and panel member of a number of arts organisations, including the Pier Arts Centre during it major redevelopment (1998-2005), the Creative Arts Panel of the former Scottish Arts Council and its representative on the Crafts Council (2003-6), and the St Magnus International Festival (2011-14). She is currently a board member of engage and chair of Soulisquoy Printmakers Ltd. As well as her experience in visual arts and crafts, she has an active interest in writing development and contemporary Scottish literature.
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