The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art has announced that Mairi Lafferty has been appointed to the role of The Daskalopoulos Curator of Engagement for a three-year period.
The post, which has been created and funded through the D.Daskalopoulos Collection, is a new role to "develop, extend and deepen" public engagement with the gallery's programme.
Based in the curatorial department at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Lafferty will work with colleagues across the National Galleries of Scotland.
She holds a Masters of Fine Art from Glasgow School of Art and a first class honours degree in Fine Art, specialising in sculpture, from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee.
Dimitris Daskalopoulos is a Greek collector of contemporary art. Exhibitions based on his collection have been presented at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.
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At the opening ceremony of Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) New Contemporaries show, Edward Humphrey was announced the winner of the Fleming-Wyfold Foundation Bursary. Humphrey, a graduate of The Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee receives a bursary of £10,000, plus £4,000 production costs for the next year. His winning video installation Another Fiction is on display in the RSA New Contemporaries exhibition, alongside works by other graduates from Scotland's art and architecture schools.
A key aspect of the Fleming-Wyfold Bursary is a mentoring scheme which will see established curator Susanna Beaumont work with Edward Humphrey for a year, offering guidance and support to help further his career.
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The judges for Dundee International Book Prize 2015 have been announced and include writer and television and radio presenter Danny Wallace,award-winning author Denise Mina (pictured), comedian Fred MacAulay, literary agent Ed Wilson and Creative Scotland's Jenny Niven. The entrants are competing for a publishing deal with Cargo Publishing and £10,000, the largest cash prize for unpublished work in the UK.
Now in its 11th year, the Prize attracted almost 500 entries for 2015, the largest volume of submissions to date.
The competition is a joint venture between the 'Dundee - One City, Many Discoveries' campaign and Literary Dundee, a University-led initiative. It is open to both local writers and authors from around the world. Amy Mason was the winner in 2014, with her novel The Other Ida. The winner of the 2015 Dundee International Book Prize winner will be revealed at the Dundee Literary Festival, October 21-25.
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Young musicians are being invited to learn lessons from music industry professionals at an event in Aberdeen's Lemon Tree this Saturday, March 21. There are spaces left on the Music Production, Hip-Hop/Rap, and Music Journalism workshops, plus the Q&A session on How to Break into the Industry, all being held as part of Music Industry Day, for young musicians aged between 14 and 25, and hosted by Aberdeen Performing Arts (APA).
In the Lemon Tree Lounge there will be stalls run by Captain Tom's Fat Hippy Records label, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Musicians Union, SHMU, Aberdeen Foyer, 57�North, North East Scotland College, Aberdeen University and iiMusic.
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