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Art Competition Judges Announced
01/06/2010
The panel of art and design experts who will judge the Trust's ongoing art competition have been unveiled.
The panel of art and design experts who will judge the Trust's ongoing art competition have been unveiled.
The full panel, judging the competition which closes on 16 August, is as follows:
Philip Long is Senior Curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, where he has worked since 1993. Exhibitions he has organised include retrospectives on the painters Francis Bacon and Howard Hodgkin and on the photographers Robert Capa, John Deakin and Diane Arbus. As a specialist in Scottish 20th-century art, he has undertaken surveys on the Scottish Colourists, and on the paintings of Mackintosh, writing catalogues on both, and has contributed to many other art-historical publications. He is a committee member of the Scottish Arts Lottery Fund and Director of the Edinburgh Art Festival and Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. In 2007 he was the Curator of Scotland’s national presentation at the Venice Biennale. He is currently working on a project for Edinburgh by the artist Antony Gormley and, jointly with Tate, on the ARTIST ROOMS collection of international modern art.
Colin MacConnachie is Head of Learning services at the Trust. His team develops learning based events, learning resources and provides all the interpretation at Trust properties. The Art Competition falls under the pARTicipate programme which is managed by Learning Services and designed to engage the public with the Trust’s conservation work through participating in the arts. Colin has been with the Trust for 11 years. Before that he taught for 25 years, specialising in design and computer graphics. Colin is still a practising artist and photographer who exhibits regularly and has work in private and public collections.
Kevin McElroy is Head of Retail at the Trust. He now leads the 3 year retail modernisation programme which he developed while on a six month secondment from John Lewis in 2007. This programme has seen shop profits rise through the continual refresh of product ranges to better align with what Trust visitors look for. Kevin has also been Group Operations Manager with Dobbies Garden Centres and National Business Development Manager at B&Q.
Paul Curran is a principal graphic designer in the Trust’s studio where he designs Trust guidebooks, brochures and other printed matter. He has a background in the printing industry, has worked as a designer for Virgin and the Scotsman and ran his own creative design company “WhiteNessie Design”. Recently he created the brand imagery selected for use on merchandise at the new Robert Burns Birthplace shops.
Gillian Peebles is an independent art historian. She has enthusiastically promoted the Art Competition through the Trust. She is a committee member of the Scottish Society for Art History. Gillian is passionate about the life changing benefits of art and is currently engaged in projects for Art in Healthcare.
For more information, visit www.nts.org.uk/artcompetition
The full panel, judging the competition which closes on 16 August, is as follows:
Philip Long is Senior Curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, where he has worked since 1993. Exhibitions he has organised include retrospectives on the painters Francis Bacon and Howard Hodgkin and on the photographers Robert Capa, John Deakin and Diane Arbus. As a specialist in Scottish 20th-century art, he has undertaken surveys on the Scottish Colourists, and on the paintings of Mackintosh, writing catalogues on both, and has contributed to many other art-historical publications. He is a committee member of the Scottish Arts Lottery Fund and Director of the Edinburgh Art Festival and Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. In 2007 he was the Curator of Scotland’s national presentation at the Venice Biennale. He is currently working on a project for Edinburgh by the artist Antony Gormley and, jointly with Tate, on the ARTIST ROOMS collection of international modern art.
Colin MacConnachie is Head of Learning services at the Trust. His team develops learning based events, learning resources and provides all the interpretation at Trust properties. The Art Competition falls under the pARTicipate programme which is managed by Learning Services and designed to engage the public with the Trust’s conservation work through participating in the arts. Colin has been with the Trust for 11 years. Before that he taught for 25 years, specialising in design and computer graphics. Colin is still a practising artist and photographer who exhibits regularly and has work in private and public collections.
Kevin McElroy is Head of Retail at the Trust. He now leads the 3 year retail modernisation programme which he developed while on a six month secondment from John Lewis in 2007. This programme has seen shop profits rise through the continual refresh of product ranges to better align with what Trust visitors look for. Kevin has also been Group Operations Manager with Dobbies Garden Centres and National Business Development Manager at B&Q.
Paul Curran is a principal graphic designer in the Trust’s studio where he designs Trust guidebooks, brochures and other printed matter. He has a background in the printing industry, has worked as a designer for Virgin and the Scotsman and ran his own creative design company “WhiteNessie Design”. Recently he created the brand imagery selected for use on merchandise at the new Robert Burns Birthplace shops.
Gillian Peebles is an independent art historian. She has enthusiastically promoted the Art Competition through the Trust. She is a committee member of the Scottish Society for Art History. Gillian is passionate about the life changing benefits of art and is currently engaged in projects for Art in Healthcare.
For more information, visit www.nts.org.uk/artcompetition
