Kate Davis announced as Margaret Tait Award winner

Glasgow-based artist Kate Davis has been awarded the 2016/17 Margaret Tait Award

Feature by News Team | 07 Jun 2016

Earlier today, Glasgow Film Festival announce New Zealand-born, Glasgow-based artist Kate Davis the winner of the 2016/17 Margaret Tait Award. The prize includes a £10,000 commission, supported by LUX and Creative Scotland, to create a new moving image work, which will be presented at Glasgow Film Festival in February 2017.

Davis studied at the Glasgow School of Art and works across a range of media, including drawing, printmaking and bookworks as well as film and video. Her solo exhibitions include shows at Dunedin Public Art Gallery, NZ; The Drawing Room, London; Temporary Gallery, Cologne; GoMA, Glasgow; Galerie Kamm, Berlin; Museo de la Ciudad and La Galeria de Comercio, Mexico; CCA, Glasgow (with Faith Wilding); Tate Britain, London; Kunsthalle Basel and Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow.

“Working with the moving image has become an increasingly important part of my practice in recent years,” said Davis, “and the Margaret Tait Award will be invaluable in enabling me to realise my most ambitious and experimental moving image work to date.”

The prize, named after the great Orcadian filmmaker and poet, was founded to support experimental and innovative artists working with film and moving image. Inspired by Tait’s films, particularly the way they “invite us to contemplate fundamental emotions and everyday activities that are often overlooked,” Davis proposes that her new commission will “investigate how the essential, but largely invisible and unpaid, processes we employ to care for others and ourselves can inform both the subject of my film and the way it is made.”

Since 2010, the Margaret Tait Award has been given to an experimental Scottish or Scotland-based artist who has established a significant body of work within film and moving image over the past 3-10 years. Previous Margaret Tait Award-winners include Charlotte Prodger, Rachel Maclean, Stephen Sutcliffe, Anne-Marie Copestake and Torsten Lauschmann.

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