Edinburgh PaletteSouth of Scotland Visual Artist and Craft Maker Awards 2016-17 – Only a few days left to apply!
Deadline for applications: 5.00pm, Monday 24th October 2016
All applications to the second round of the 2016-17 South of Scotland Visual Artist and Craft Maker Awards must be received by 5.00pm on Monday 24th October.
Arts & Business Scotland is offering the opportunity for an artist to create and fabricate the Awards Objects, Sponsored by Atlantic Quay, for the Arts & Business Scotland 30th Annual Awards. This opportunity would suit an artist specialising in one of a number of different materials, including but not limited to wood, metal, ceramics, glass or fabric.
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Call for artworks to be exhibited with option for purchase during a private event on Wednesday 19th October 2016, 5:00-7:00pm, at Health for Life, 56 Montrose Terrace, Edinburgh EH7 5DP.
The evening event will coincide with the 12th Birthday Celebration of Health for Life Spinal Wellness Centre, and will also feature live music accompaniment and sparkling drinks.
Exhibition continues to Thursday 1st November 2016.
Applications must include all of the following:
Get your artwork seen on the Royal Bank of Scotland’s 30 metre poster at Edinburgh Airport!
Attention all creatives. Win the ultimate showcase for your work.
The Royal Bank of Scotland is offering a unique opportunity to have your artwork displayed on one of its most iconic advertising sites, the Edinburgh Airport.
Paint, snap or doodle what you think makes Edinburgh an iconic city and you can win a chance to get your artwork displayed on a 30 metre canvas at Edinburgh Airport. The winner will also receive £1,500 compensation for their work.
Ahead of his gallery residency here next month, Tim Vincent-Smith and his band Sink will be providing live accompaniment to the surrealist masterpiece L’Age d’Or, in a one-off showing in the Filmhouse this Friday night. The film caused a wee bit of a stir (and more than a few riots) when it was first released – it is expected Sink and the Noize Choir will recapture that with this performance..and then some.
Ashurst is pleased to announce the launch of the Ashurst Emerging Art Prize 2015, a new prize for emerging artists in the UK.The winner, to be selected by a judging panel made up of a variety of art experts including collection directors, critics, lecturers and artists, will receive a £3,000 cash prize and solo exhibition in the Ashurst Emerging Artist Gallery.
Calling all makers, tinkerers, tailors, geeks. The 2015 Edinburgh Mini Maker Faire is going to be bigger and better than ever.
The City of Edinburgh Council in partnership with Creative Scotland is pleased to announce the next round of the Edinburgh Visual Artists and Craft Makers Awards and the Edinburgh Emerging Artists Bursaries Scheme. These schemes have been established to address current gaps in resources available to individual artists/makers.
The schemes are open to makers/visual artists of all ages and at any stage of their career, but must be outwith full time education. Applicants should be able to demonstrate a level of commitment to their practice and have achieved a body of work out with formal education. Applicants must be Edinburgh based.
The Visual Artists and Craft Makers Award scheme aims to support Edinburgh-based visual arts and craft practitioners through grants towards the development of their practice through new work and research.
Awards of between £500 and £1500 are available.
The Bursary programme will support up to 2 successful applicants to develop and progress their creative practice over 12 months.
The programme will be tailored to the individual artist/maker and will include mentoring which may lead to the development of skills/training, creation of new work, presenting and marketing work.
The successful applicant will be awarded £1,500 as a bursary with a further budget available for any identified additional support that may be needed.
The application deadline for both schemes is Friday, 23 January 2015.
For further information and application pack contact:
Jo Navarro
Tel: 0131 529 6716
The Scotsman have let us know about their upcoming conferences that may be of interest to the building, including Copyright and Cultural Heritage 2.0: Protecting creators, sharing content.
Taking place in The Scottish National Gallery, this conference will examine how copyright owners and creators, such as photographers, can licence and protect their creative output in a digital economy.
The conference will hear from senior representatives of the cultural heritage sector on how these changes will affect access to our shared cultural heritage.
To book, please click here.
And to see the other scheduled lectures, click here.