Scottish Album of the Year and CCA team up for art awards
The Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award and Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) have joined forces to present two awards for both established and emerging artists based in Scotland.
The Scottish Album of the Year Award Art Award offers the winner an exhibition in the CCA’s Intermedia gallery this May, while the Graduate Art and Design Commission invites proposals from recent graduates for artworks based on each of the 2015 SAY Award nominees.
The Graduate Art and Design Commission has no set parameters, with artists who graduated from Scotland’s art and design colleges in 2014 invited to propose “zines, prints, posters, sculptures, paintings, ceramics, publications, trophies, textiles, conceptual works” or any other artwork of their choice. It follows in the footsteps of the SAY Art Commission, which saw graduates from four of Scotland's main art schools – Duncan of Jordanstone, Edinburgh College of Art, Glasgow School of Art and Gray’s School of Art – present work inspired by SAY-nominated albums at the CCA.
The Art Award is open to artists based in Scotland who have at least five years’ professional experience, or graduated in 2010 or earlier, with submissions open for artists working in “moving image, sound, performance, digital or with a strong connection to sound or music”.
Last year’s SAY Award was won by Edinburgh hip-hop trio Young Fathers, with RM Hubbert and Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat winning the award in 2013 and 2012 respectively.
Submissions for the Scottish Album of the Year Award Art Award and the Graduate Art and Design Commission close at 9am on 2 March.