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RSA WILLIAM LITTLEJOHN WATERCOLOUR AWARD
The 2010 William Littlejohn Watercolour Award (£2000) has been awarded to Jean Duncan.
RSA WILLIAM LITTLEJOHN AWARD
The RSA William Littlejohn Watercolour Award (£2,000) funds a period of residential research for a new body of work with a residency centre in Scotland. The award culminates in an exhibition of the resulting works at the RSA Annual Exhibition the following year. The award is open to painters in watercolour born or now living in Scotland. Established in 2008 the award is funded by The William Littlejohn Bequest and administered by the Royal Scottish Academy.
ABOUT THE 2010 WINNER
Jean Duncan (b. Lochgilphead 1957) graduated from Glasgow School of Art and was the 2007 winner of the prestigious J D Fergusson Arts Award. Jean also won the Fife Council Visual Arts Award in both 2009 and 2010 and has held solo exhibitions at the University of Dundee and the Fergusson Gallery, Perth. Currently living and working in Wormit, Fife, Jean’s award-winning proposal to the William Littlejohn committee focused on the sea, patterns and movements in the sand and sandbanks and, in particular, microscopic diatoms, or plankton. She intends to use the award to travel to Orkney to further develop these themes with researchers recording and detailing the observations both from the land and the microscope. The resulting work will be exhibited at the prestigious RSA Annual Exhibition in April/ May 2011 (dates TBC).
ABOUT WILLIAM LITTLEJOHN RSA
William (Bill) Littlejohn was born in 1929 and studied at Dundee College of Art from 1946 - 1950. He taught in Angus and at Arbroath High School before joining the staff of Gray's School of Art in 1966, becoming Head of Fine Art in 1970. He was elected an associate member of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1966 and became a full member in 1973. He was also an elected member of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW) and the Royal Glasgow Institute (RGI). A great admirer of Oriental Art, Bill received the RSA Gillies Award to travel to Japan in 1984. He had many successful one-man exhibitions as well as participating in group exhibitions worldwide. He was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy in London. Bill was resident in Arbroath all his life and was a supporter of the Arbroath Art Society. He was also interested in the work of James Cowie and the Hospitalfield House tradition and served as a Trustee of Hospitalfield House for many years. Bill left his entire studio to the RSA in 2006 and the award is funded from this Bequest.
APPLICATION CRITERIA & CONDITIONS OF ENTRY
1. Entrants must be born or now living and working in Scotland.
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
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 details of their practice, proposed research and residential plans (1 A4 page 800 words)
4. Six images of current work (high quality JPEGs at 300dpi only). 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 RSA William Littlejohn Watercolour Award,
The Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL
Email: opportunities@royalscottishacademy.org
Web: www.royalscottishacademy.org
Tel: 0131 225 6671
Contact:
opportunities@royalscottishacademy.org
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