A GLASGOW-BASED artist has won this year’s £15,000 prize for the Margaret Tait Award.
Andrew Black took the top award for moving image artists in Scotland with his proposed new work, The Besom.
Named for a 19th-century inn, once a site of social gathering, it will explore the traces of different social and industrial pasts which haunt the now-ruined building’s surroundings.
He plans to use “local-history research practices and experimental production processes to explore strange synchronicities and uncanny presences in a depopulated upland landscape”.
Winning the award means the finished work from the Leeds-born artist, who has lived in Glasgow since 2009, will be screened at Glasgow Film Festival next year.
It will also go on show in London and around Scotland.
He is currently working with Atlas Arts on the Plural Futures community film commission on Skye.
Mr Black said: “I feel completely stunned to receive the Margaret Tait award this year – it’s a massive deal for anyone who makes moving-image in Scotland. It’s all the more humbling considering the quantity of excellent video work being made here – all of the shortlisted artists have practices that I know and love.”
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