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RSA BARNS-GRAHAM TRAVEL AWARD
The 2010 Barns-Graham Travel Award (£2000) has been awarded to Geri Loup Nolan
THE BARNS-GRAHAM TRAVEL AWARD
The RSA Barns-Graham Travel Award (£2,000) is a wonderful travel and research opportunity for emerging artists. It is open to painters, printmakers and sculptors who are recent graduates or current postgraduates at one of the main art schools in Scotland.Established in 2006 the award is funded by the Barns-Graham Trust and administered by the Royal Scottish Academy.
ABOUT THE 2010 WINNER
Geri Loup Nolan (b. Manchester 1961) graduated from Edinburgh College of Art this year. Her award-winning proposal to the Barns-Graham committee is to travel to Japan to explore connections between the east and west in philosophical thinking and artistic/architectural approaches. Geri will be invited to show the resulting work from her travels at the prestigious RSA Annual Exhibition in April/May 2011 (dates TBC). In addition to this, as a 2010 graduate of a Scottish art school, Geri has been selected to show at the 2011 RSA New Contemporaries exhibition. She currently lives and works in Portobello, Edinburgh.
ABOUT WILHELMINA BARNS-GRAHAM CBE HRSA
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham HRSA was born in 1912 in St Andrews, Fife. After attending Edinburgh College of Art (1932 - 37) she went to St. Ives in 1940, quickly becoming part of the group which included Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth. She was a founder member of the Penwith Society. She travelled regularly over the next 20 years - Switzerland, Italy, Paris, and Spain. With the exception of a short teaching term at Leeds School of Art (1956 - 57) and three years in London (1960 - 63) she lived and worked in St Ives with regular stays in St Andrews where, in 1992, she received an Honorary Doctorate from the University. In 1999 she was elected an honorary member of the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) and The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW); she also received Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Plymouth and Exeter and in 2001 she was awarded CBE. Her paintings can be found in public collections throughout the UK including Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Arts Council of Great Britain, British Museum, the Tate Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, Leeds and Manchester City Art Galleries.
APPLICATION CRITERIA & CONDITIONS OF ENTRY
1. Entrants must be painters, printmakers or sculptors who have either graduated in 2011 or are currently studying at postgraduate level at one of the main art schools in Scotland (Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Elgin).
2. This award should not be used as a capital grant.
3. All entries on CD-ROM will not be returned and are submitted at the artist's risk. The RSA will not be responsible for any loss or damage.
4. The award-winning artist will be announced by mid July.
5. The 2011 award should be completed by 1 April 2012 (tbc)
6. The winner will be expected to exhibit invited work(s) in the RSA Annual Exhibition the following year. Further arrangements will be determined in consultation with the winner.
7. The Royal Scottish Academy reserves the right to accession one work from the artist into the Permanent Collection of the Royal Scottish Academy.
8. The copyright of all works remain with the artist but it is a condition of entry that the Royal Scottish Academy reserves the right of reproduction of all submitted and resultant works for publicity/educational/reference purposes in connection with the award.
9. The decision of the adjudicators is final and no correspondence can be entered into.
10. Personal information supplied by applicants on registration/application forms will be held securely by the Royal Scottish Academy in accordance with the Data Protection Act, 1998.
11. The winner will meet the trustees on an informal basis at some point during the year and is expected to submit a short report to the RSA on completion of the award which will be forwarded to The Barns-Graham Trustees.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
Entrants must submit
1. Cover page with full contact details including: name, address, telephone, email and details of where you heard about this award.
2. Curriculum Vitae (1 A4 page) Please do not include contact details.
3. Concise statement outlining their practice, proposed project and travel plans (1 A4 page 800 words)
4. Six images of current work (300dpi JPEGs only or 72dpi for video stills) or a DVD show-reel of no more than 3 minutes. Images should be captioned with artist name, title and (year).
5. List of image captions (1 A4 page) including: Title (year) Medium, dimensions and photographer credit & copyright/permission information.
Please post or email applications to:
The Barns-Graham Travel Award,
The Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL
Email: opportunities@royalscottishacademy.org
Contact:
opportunities@royalscottishacademy.org
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