The Margaret Tait Award was launched in 2009 by Glasgow Film Festival to support the wealth of emerging Scottish talent within the field of film and moving image. The £10,000 prize, which is inspired by the pioneering and underrated film maker and poet Margaret Tait (1918–1999), is offered to a Scottish or Scotland-based artist to create new work to be presented as part of the Glasgow Film Festival in 2014. Selection is by nomination, which closes at 5pm on 2 April.
Previous winners include: Stephen Sutcliffe (2012), whose filmic collage Outwork combined animation and still images and looked at how evidence can be affected by changing contexts; Anne-Marie Copestake (2011), who uncovered ‘patterns of so-called emancipation’ through the lives of two women in her work And Under That; and Torsten Lauschmann (2010), who used the commission to create At The Heart of Everything is a Row of Holes ‘a surround-theatre event where carpets fly through the air, pianos play themselves, and mechanical monkeys and mice make great music’.
The Margaret Tait Award is supported by Creative Scotland in partnership with LUX.
Margaret Tait Award 2013 – Nominations deadline 5pm, Tuesday 2 April 2013.
