Aspect Art Prize Shortlist June 10

THE ASPECT AWARD, SCOTLAND'S ANSWER TO THE TURNER PRIZE ANNOUNCES SHORTLIST - picture shows Frances Law - Picture by Donald MacLeod 07.06.10 - mobile 07702 319 738 - A former chart-topping recording artist has been chosen as one of four finalists in Scotland's answer to the Turner Prize. Steven Lindsay found fame as the lead singer of Glasgow-based band, The Big Dish, whose best known single was Miss America. Now the singer, who attended Glasgow School of Art in the early 1980s, along with...
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THE ASPECT AWARD, SCOTLAND'S ANSWER TO THE TURNER PRIZE ANNOUNCES SHORTLIST - picture shows Frances Law - Picture by Donald MacLeod 07.06.10 - mobile 07702 319 738 - A former chart-topping recording artist has been chosen as one of four finalists in Scotland's answer to the Turner Prize. Steven Lindsay found fame as the lead singer of Glasgow-based band, The Big Dish, whose best known single was Miss America. Now the singer, who attended Glasgow School of Art in the early 1980s, along with Scottish contemporary art stars, Steven Conroy and Alison Watt, has been short listed for one of the art word's biggest privately funded awards, The Aspect Prize. His three fellow finalists are; Adam Kennedy, whose brother Paul Kennedy was short listed for the last year's prize, Rowena Comrie, who recently completed a 20ft map of Scotland for the BBC painted on tarmac and Frances Law, a Kirriemuir-based artist who won the Scottish National Art Prize in 2008. All four artists received £5,000 at the opening of the annual Aspect Prize exhibition at Paisley Art Gallery & Museum on Friday night (11/6/10)..The quartet are now in line for the premier award of £15,000, which will be awarded at the Aspect Prize Finalists' exhibition. This will take place in January 2011 at The Fleming Collection in London. The artists will spend the next six months working towards this exhibition. The Fleming Collection, an Embassy for Scottish Art in London, is the largest private collection of Scottish Art in the world. The overall winner will have their painting displayed within the collection. Aspect Prize Chairman Charles Jamieson said: "Very rarely, a group of judges react as one with gasps of delight and astonishment when viewing work. It happened this year when we were selecting the finalists for the Aspect Prize. "We have selected four sensitive, observant, skillful and passionate artists. Artists who are ready to take what they already have and move it forwards. Who need and deserve this opport
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