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Phoebe Banks joins LUX Scotland team

News 29 November 2022

We are excited to announce Phoebe Banks has joined the LUX Scotland team as our Project Assistant for the Aberdeen Programme.

LUX Scotland Winter Closure 2022/23

News 23 November 2022

LUX Scotland will be closed from Thursday 22 December 2022 for our winter break.
a Northern English valley with green rolling hills and lush trees is dotted with ruined stoned buildings and intersected by a narrow road lined by dry stone walls. 3 cars drive along the road, one black, one red, and one blue. The foliage has hints of burnt brown, red and yellow. Looming large on the horizon are white surveillance radomes, the sky is dark grey behind these huge geodesic domes.

Andrew Black’s Margaret Tait Award Commission ‘On Clogger Lane’ to Premiere at Glasgow Film Theatre

News 15 November 2022

We are pleased to announce that Margaret Tait Award 2021 recipient Andrew Black’s new commission ​‘On Clogger Lane’ will premiere at Glasgow Film Theatre on Tuesday 21 February 2023, coinciding with an exhibition at The Tetley, Leeds.
A mountainous landscape at sunrise, the sun’s light creating lens flare over a pale blue sky and dark hills.

Phoebe McBride announced as the recipient of the online commission for Aberdeen based artists

News 31 October 2022

We are delighted to announce Phoebe McBride as the recipient of our online commission for an Aberdeen based artist.
a black and white diagram made up of a filled in black square, overlapping white circles and two thin white lines that intersect the circles and cross over one another. In the right hand corner of the square is a capital letter ‘D’ in a white san serif font. Beneath the diagram are hand written words in capital letters, which reads ‘THE SPACE WHERE THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF DISABILITY EMBODIMENTS HAPPEN’.

Job Opportunity: Project Manager

Opportunities Deadline passed

Funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Collective, DCA and LUX Scotland wish to recruit a Project Manager to lead on a three-year collaborative project that works towards creating systemic change in the Scottish arts sector for disabled visual artists and arts professionals.

Available in BSL
A black and white image shows a 16mm Bolex camera set up on a tripod facing towards the side of a van with a piece of paper tacked to the side. The paper reads ‘A Portrait of Ga’, the title card for Margaret Tait’s film of the same name. In the background a hilly rural landscape and bright sky.

Margaret Tait Residency 2023 | Open Call for Applications

Opportunities Deadline passed

Applications are open for the Margaret Tait Residency 2023 – the deadline is Monday 7 November, 5pm.

Available in BSL
A colour photograph of Margaret Tait on the set of Blue Black Permanent. In the foreground Tait sits in a directors chair, her name illustrated on the back, with her back to the camera as she turns her head looking to the left of the frame. She wears clear framed glasses and her white hair blows in the wind. In the background a man stands on the shore with a camera on a tripod, his ankles covered by the sea, against a blue sky.

Margaret Tait Award 2023 | Open for Nominations

Opportunities Deadline passed

Nominations are open for the Margaret Tait Award 2023 – the deadline is Monday 7 November, 5pm.

Available in BSL
A still shows a figure from behind with ginger hair, pulled back tightly into a bun, sat at a desk looking into the viewer of a microscope. The figure wears a dusty purple garment contrasted with delicate purple string. On the screen in the top left of the frame shows a microscopic image of a cell.

November Research Bursaries | Digital access to the LUX Collection

Opportunities 1 October 2022

We are excited to release our third set of bursaries for researchers (including artists, curators and programmers) who work with the moving image and are based in Scotland.

'Grahamston' by William Aikman Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra

News 28 September 2022

‘Grahamston’ (2021), commissioned as part of Now & Next 2020, will be broadcast on BBC Radio Radio 4 Extra’s New Creatives Dramas.

Online Commission for Aberdeen based Artists

Opportunities 5 September 2022

LUX Scotland is delighted to announce a new commission opportunity for artists based in Aberdeen.

Job Opportunity: Project Assistant (Aberdeen Programme)

Opportunities 5 September 2022

We are looking for a creative, committed individual who is passionate about the work of LUX Scotland and our commitment to support, develop and promote artists’ moving image across Scotland.
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LUX Scotland Programme in Aberdeen

News 1 September 2022

We are happy to announce a new programme of support for artists in Aberdeen that will begin in Autumn this year and continue until Spring 2023.
A figure in a neon pink wooly hat and black coat with a large colour obscuring their face, stands in a graveyard in low daylight holding out an audio recorder.

'The Riot Act' by Aideen Doran broadcast on BBC Arts

News 18 August 2022

‘The Riot Act’ by Aideen Doran, commissioned as part of Now & Next 2020, is broadcast now on BBC Arts.
A film still from ‘Lagareh – The Last Born’. We see a Black womxn wearing a white sweater, a multi-coloured kilt and white and black boots. She is standing in a grassy field: her shoulders are raised and holding two machetes. In the background, there is an eighteenth-century folly and a simple fence with timber posts and metal netting. The sky is blue and there are no clouds.

Alberta Whittle, ‘Lagareh - The Last Born’ | Scotland + Venice Screening Tour

News 3 August 2022

LUX Scotland and Scotland + Venice are delighted to announce the tour of Alberta Whittle’s ​‘Lagareh – The Last Born’ to six venues across Scotland between 20 September 2022 and 1 March 2023.
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Learning Resources audio recordings published

News 27 July 2022

We are happy to publish audio recordings of the LUX Scotland Learning Resources.
A colour image, blurred as though shot from a moving vehicle. We look down a lane, framed by hedges and grass, a tall green tree at the end of the lane.

LUX Scotland Summer Closure 2022

News 20 July 2022

LUX Scotland will be closed from Monday 8 August for a summer break for one week.

Saoirse Amira Anis, 'Holding Barzakh', Online Commission

News 6 July 2022

LUX Scotland is happy to announce a new online commission by Saoirse Amira Anis, ​‘Holding Barzakh’ (2022) will be available to view online from Thursday 15 September, until Thursday 17 November, on the LUX Scotland website with an online discussion event in early November.

August Research Bursaries | Digital access to the LUX Collection

Opportunities 5 July 2022

We’re excited to release our second set of research bursaries for researchers (including artists, curators and programmers) who work with the moving image and are based in Scotland.