The Margaret Tait Award is a moving image prize for artists living and working in

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...

. It is named after the Orcadian filmmaker and writer

Margaret Tait Margaret Caroline Tait (11 November 1918 – 16 April 1999) was a Scottish medical doctor, filmmaker and poet. Early life and education Tait was born and raised in Kirkwall, in the Orkney Islands in the north of Scotland, before being sent to ...

(1918–99). Recipients of the award have included

Alberta Whittle Alberta Whittle (born 1980, Bridgetown, Barbados) is a Barbadian-Scottish multidisciplinary artist who works across media: film, sculpture, print, installation and performance. She lives and works in Glasgow. She was the winner of the Margaret T ...

Charlotte Prodger Charlotte Prodger (born 1974) is a British artist and film-maker who works with "moving image, printed image, sculpture and writing". Her films include ''Statics'' (2021), ''SaF05'' (2019), ''LHB'' (2017), ''Passing as a great grey owl'' (2017), ...

, Rachel Maclean and Torsten Lauschmann.

History

The Margaret Tait Award was established in 2010 by Glasgow Film, LUX Scotland, supported by

Screen Scotland The Moving Image Archive is a collection of Scottish film and video recordings at the National Library of Scotland, held at Kelvin Hall in Glasgow, Scotland. There are over 46,000 items within the collection, and over 2,600 of these are publicly a ...

. The Award is presented annually to a Scottish or Scotland-based artist working in moving image who has produced a significant body of work in the last 5 to 12 years. The winner is awarded £15,000 to produce new work, which is exhibited at the next

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Selection process

Artists are selected based on an open call. The winner is decided by a selected jury.

Award winners

* 2021: Andrew Black, ''The Besom'' (Shortlisted: Christian Noelle Charles, Winnie Herbstein, Mathew Wayne Parkin and Tako Taal) *2020: Emilia Beatriz (Shortlisted: Sulaïman Majali, Kimberley O’Neill, and Hardeep Pandhal) * 2019: Jamie Crewe, ''Ashley'' (Shortlisted: Winnie Herbstein,

Margaret Salmon Margaret Salmon is an American and British based film maker-artist. The work of this New York-born filmmaker is fuelled by references to the great realist tradition in film, be it the propaganda documentary of the Farm Security Administratio ...

and Stuart Middleton) * 2018:

, ''between a whisper and a cry'' (Shortlisted: Aideen Doran, Rob Kennedy and

Corin Sworn Corin Sworn (born 1976) is an artist who lives and works in Glasgow. Her 2012 installation and film ''The Foxes'' was shown at the Scottish Pavilion of the 2013 Venice Biennale. Sworn was the recipient of the fifth edition of the Max Mara Art Pr ...

) * 2017: Sarah Forrest, ''April'' (Shortlisted: Jamie Crewe,

and Kimberley O’Neill) * 2016: Kate Davis, ''Charity'' (Shortlisted: Aideen Doran, Hardeep Pandhal, Catherine Street and Stina Wirfelt) * 2015: Duncan Marquiss, ''Evolutionary Jerks and Gradualist Creeps'' (Shortlisted: Kathryn Elkin, Rob Kennedy, and Hardeep Pandhal) * 2014:

, ''The Stoneymollan Trail'' (Shortlisted: Allison Gibbs, Beagles and Ramsay, Kari Robertson, Kathryn Elkin and Katy Dove) * 2013: Rachel Maclean, ''A Whole New World'' (Shortlisted: Michelle Hannah, Rob Kennedy, Sophie Macpherson, Gillian Steel, Sarah Tripp, and Stina Wirfelt) * 2012: Stephen Sutcliffe, ''Outwork'' (Shortlisted: Calum Stirling, Katri Walker, Rachel MacLean, Stina Wirfelt and Stuart Gurden) * 2011: Anne-Marie Copestake, ''And Under That'' * 2010: Torsten Lauschmann, ''At The Heart of Everything is a Row of Holes'' (Shortlisted: Aileen Campbell, Sarah Tripp, Henry Coombes, Alexander and Susan Maris)

References

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