The Freelands Foundation has announced that the recipient of the inaugural Freelands Award is the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, which will present a major exhibition with Scottish artist Jacqueline Donachie.
The award was established to enable a regional arts organization to present an exhibition by a "mid-career female artist who may not have yet received the acclaim or public recognition that her work deserves."
The total value of the award is £100,000, of which £25,000 is to be paid directly to the artist.
Elisabeth Murdoch, founder of Freelands Foundation and Chair of the selection panel for the Award, said: "As The Fruitmarket stated in their application, Jacqueline is a noted member of the so-called 'Glasgow Miracle' – and yet after 25 years she has never had an exhibition that brings together new and existing work to allow an appraisal of her diverse practice as a whole. With this award, The Fruitmarket Gallery will provide Jacqueline with the financial freedom and curatorial support to create ambitious new work and enable greater recognition."
www.freelandsfoundation.co.uk
Irish folksinger and multi-instrumentalist Andy Irvine plays a series of Scottish dates next month.
Irvine was a founding member of three of the bands who remodelled Irish traditional music in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s – Sweeney’s Men, Planxty and Patrick Street – and more recently formed the Irish-American-East European group Mozaik and the Irish supergroup Usher’s Island with fellow Planxty founder Donal Lunny and fiddler Paddy Glackin, guitarist John Doyle and flautist-piper Michael McGoldrick.
He plays Crafts & Things, Glencoe (October 4), Dundee Acoustic Music Club (5), Montrose Folk Club (6), Milngavie Folk Club (7), and Eyemouth Hippodrome (11).
www.andyirvine.com
The FLY Open Air Festival of dance music will take place at the Ross Band Stand at Princes Street Gardens from midday to 10pm on September 24.
The line up includes Booka Shade, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Detroit Swindle, Theo KottisHarri + Domenic and Nolan & Herd.
Booka Shade are a live act who have been headlining festival sized gigs and vast arenas for years.
Fly was launched three years ago as a weekly residency at Edinburgh’s Cabaret Voltaire as a place for a core group of friends to "play records and hang out".
https://www.facebook.com/FLYOPENAIRFESTIVAL/
Strathpeffer-based artist Alex Dunn has an exhibition at Moray Art Centre in Forres running from October 4 to 30.
Interpretation, Precision & Abstraction: The Harps & Arts of Ardival features Dunn’s mostly abstract pictures, which he builds up from paper, card, graphite and crayon, and the harps made by the company Dunn established in 1992, Ardival, to build harps designed by himself, harp player and authority Bill Taylor and harp builder Graham Muir.
Ardival harps have since been exported all over the world and feature on recordings by leading harpers including Alison Kinnaird, Javier Sáinz, and Ruth Wall. www.morayartcentre.org
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