THE Barbadian artist Alberta Whittle has won the Margaret Tait award, in the centenary year of the pioneering Orcadian filmmaker’s birth.
At the premiere of Sarah Forrest’s 2017 Margaret Tait Award commission April (2018), Glasgow Film Festival presented the 2018 Margaret Tait Award to Ms Whittle.
The prize was founded in 2010 to support experimental and innovative artists working with film and the moving image.
Margaret Tait (1918–99) was an Orcadian filmmaker and writer whose film poems, hand-painted animations and documentaries were pioneering in the field of experimental filmmaking.
Born in Barbados and currently resident in Glasgow, Alberta Whittle is an artist, researcher and educator.
She works in choreographing interactive installations, using film, sculpture and performance as site-specific artworks in public and private spaces.
Whittle’s work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the Johannesburg Pavillion at the 56th Venice Biennale.
She has also been a Committee Member of Transmission Gallery in Glasgow since 2016.
The recipient of the award receives a £10,000 prize to produce ambitious new work, which is exhibited at the Glasgow Film Festival the following year.
www.glasgowfilm.org
A COLLABORATION between an Edinburgh puppetry theatre and a cultural centre in Jordan is to tour Scotland this spring.
Vision Mechanics are collaborating with Haya Cultural Centre, Amman, to create Little Light, set inside a magical Bedouin tent.
The show is 40 minutes long and in it, the audience enter the tent and are treated as "honoured guests."
Jordanian performers Hanin Awali and Mohammad Awad tell the story.
Haya Cultural Centre General Manager, Diala Khamra, said: “This production offered a unique opportunity for Jordanian and Scottish artists to work together on the creation of a new theatre production for children.
"The Haya Cultural Centre is one of Jordan’s most innovative creative spaces for young people and Little Light has been an exciting opportunity for us to work with our peers around the world."
The tour lasts from March 21 to April 15, beginning in Raasey and ending in Melrose.
www.visionmechanics.org
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