Margaret Tait Award 2022 Open for Nominations

• Artists who are based in Scotland.
• Artists who have developed a significant body of work over the past 5 – 10 years and are at the cusp of a major impact on the artists’ moving image sector. 5 – 10 years does not have to be consecutive years of practice and can begin from a point in an artist’s career that is deemed to be the beginning of their working practice.
• Artists who are contributing to the critical context of artists’ moving image production in Scotland at the time of nomination.
• There is no age restriction.
• Artists do not have to have been in formal education, attended art school or university.
• Collectives, groups and collaborations are eligible as long as there is demonstration of working collectively over a sustained amount of time. Please note, the award amount would remain the same in this instance.
• We regret that we cannot accept nominations of artists who are currently students.
• We regret that we cannot accept nominations of artists who have already been shortlisted for the Margaret Tait Award three times.
• Artists can be nominated for the Margaret Tait Award and apply for the Margaret Tait Residency. If this occurs, we will ask artists which opportunity they would prefer to pursue.

Please send up to 200 words on the artist’s career to date, their impact on the sector and your reasons for nominating. Please include a link to the artist’s website or an online example of their work, as well as the artist’s email address.

Nominations are assessed by a panel of artists and professionals from across the fields of the visual arts and film. Shortlisted artists are then asked to present proposals for the commission, with an accompanying artists’ fee.

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Deadline for nominations is Monday 29 November, 5pm. The shortlist will be announced in December 2021. The recipient of the Margaret Tait Award will be announced at Glasgow Film Festival in 2022.

Support in making a nomination:

If you would prefer to submit a video or voice recording in place of a written nomination, please send up to 2 minutes of video/​voice recording to email hidden; JavaScript is required. Please include a link to an online example of the artist’s work and their email address in the body of the email.

Support for nominated artists:

Artists will be asked to provide a brief artist statement in support of their nomination. This can be a written statement, a video or voice recording.

Shortlisted artists have the following support available:

• The presentations for shortlisted artists will take place on Zoom individually.
• BSL interpretation and live captioning is available.
• Mobile data and /​or support for internet connection is available.
• Questions from the panel will be provided in advance of the meeting.
• Artists will be contacted individually to submit their presentations and the LUX Scotland team will work with you to devise the best way for you to present your proposal. This can include, but is not limited to, presenting a pre-recorded video, a slide show presentation, or providing links to example works.
• Shortlisted artists will be paid a fee for their time in making and presenting their proposal for the award.

The award comes with tailored access support for the recipient, which will be discussed individually with the selected artist. The award fee is accompanied by a separate production fund to support access measures for the newly commissioned work.

If you have any questions or require support, please contact Annie Crabtree, Project Manager, on email hidden; JavaScript is required or by telephone /​text on 07394 042450.

The selection panel for the Margaret Tait Award is comprised of Jamie Crewe, Glasgow based artist and Margaret Tait Award 2019 recipient; Kirsten Body, Inverness based curator and producer; Georgina Jackson, Director of Hugh Lane, Dublin; Rabz Lansiquot, London based artist and programmer, part of curatorial collaboration Languid Hands; Kitty Anderson, Director of LUX Scotland; and Screen Scotland.

Jamie Crewe is a beautiful bronze figure with a polished cocotte’s head. They grew up in the Peak District and are now settled in Glasgow. They have presented several solo exhibitions, including Ashley at LUX Moving Image, London (2020); Solidarity & Love at Humber Street Gallery, Hull (2020); Love & Solidarity at Grand Union, Birmingham (2020); Pastoral Drama at Tramway, Glasgow (2018); Female Executioner at Gasworks, London (2017); and But what was most awful was a girl who was singing at Transmission, Glasgow (2016). In 2019 Jamie was awarded the tenth Margaret Tait Award, and in 2020 they were awarded one of ten Turner Bursaries.

Kirsten Body is based in Inverness and has 20 years experience working in the visual arts sector across galleries, public art agencies and artist led projects. She trained at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen (1998) and was awarded an MBA in Cultural Management from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh (2002). From the beginning of her career Kirsten has held a strong interest in artist-led and self-organising practices in the visual arts.She is currently the Scottish Artist Union’s Learning Manager and a founding member of Circus Artspace – a new artist-led gallery and graduate support programme in Inverness. Previous roles have included Contemporary Art Curator for High Life Highland’s four galleries including Inverness Museum & Art Gallery (2013 – 2021), Assistant Producer at public art organisations IOTA (Inverness, 2011 – 2013) and PACE (Edinburgh, 2010 – 2011), and Programme Manager at the Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (2004 – 2010).

Dr Georgina Jackson is the Director of The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art at Trinity College Dublin. Prior to this she was the Director of Exhibitions & Programs at Mercer Union, a centre for contemporary art, Toronto. She has commissioned new work by artists including Deanna Bowen, Seamus Harahan, Duane Linklater, Liz Magic Laser, and Garrett Phelan. She has partnered on exhibitions with the Toronto International Film Festival, Images Festival, the Irish Film Institute and aemi and is a member of the Steering Committee of the National Campaign for the Arts.

Rabz Lansiquot is a filmmaker, programmer, curator, and DJ. They were a leading member of sorryyoufeeluncomfortable collective from its inception in 2014, and now work alongside Imani Robinson as Languid Hands, who are the Cubitt Curatorial Fellows for 2020 – 21 and curated the 2021 Frieze LIVE programme. Rabz was Curator-In-Residence at LUX Moving Image in 2019, developing a public and educational programme around Black liberatory cinema. Their first solo exhibition where did we land, an experimental visual essay exploring the use of images of anti-black violence in film and media, was on view at LUX in Summer 2019. They have curated film programmes at the ICA, SQIFF and Berwick Film & Media Festival, were a programme advisor for London Film Festival’s Experimenta strand in 2019, and currently programme for Sheffield Doc Fest. Rabz is also training to deliver workshops in Super 8 and eco-processing at not.nowhere.