News: The Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Award

siobhanmclaughlinstudio • December 22, 2019

Wanting to say a huge thank you to the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust, I am absolutely delighted to have been given this award at the VAS + SSA Open Exhibition.

It was a complete surprise, and I'm very pleased. Find my work Untitled (Lochnagar III) here.

A wee section from the Barns-Graham Trust website about the award:

"The Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Award recognises and celebrates a long association between the artist and the SSA. In 1935, while Barns-Graham was still studying for her Diploma at Edinburgh College of Art, the SSA offered her the first opportunity to exhibit in a public exhibition – a landscape in oils. She would continue to show in the annual exhibitions through the 1930s. While at ECA Barns-Graham also benefitted from the award of a number of scholarships and bursaries. It is particularly appropriate therefore that the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust should support a new £2,000 prize for an artist, while the 2019 Scottish Society of Artists Open exhibition is being held in Edinburgh.

The SSA is an artist-led organisation with over 1000 members from across Scotland and beyond. This year’s annual Open Exhibition is the second collaborative venture between the SSA and Visual Arts Scotland (VAS). The two organisations have joined forces once again, with one common vision and clarity of purpose, to create a combined annual show which they believe to be the very best in contemporary art and design."


https://www.barns-grahamtrust.org.uk/The-Trust/News/News-108.html


The SSA|VAS OPEN is on at the Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound, Edinburgh between 22 December 2019 to 30 January 2020.

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