Yesterday Avocado Sweet was pleased to attend a preview of the Scottish Portrait Awards in Edinburgh. It seems almost incredible there has been, until now, no opportunity for national recognition in Scotland in this field: organiser Sara McBean said, ‘This competition has been over two years in the planning on the part of the Scottish Arts Club Charitable Trust and it is our hope it not only celebrates and promotes the work of artists born, living or studying in Scotland but also becomes a portraiture collection of significance.’ The works in the exhibition were selected from hundreds of entries and up to 60 finalists are included in the exhibition and catalogue.
The winner of the Richard Cowan Photography Award was Edinburgh based Robin Gillanders whose elegant, large format portrait of Shetland author Robert Alan Jamieson (below) was photographed using the lens once used for the iconic Rolling Stones Let it Bleed album cover.
Also commended were Galician photographer Oscar Pereira Beiroa and Robert Andrew Mercer whose images are shown below.
Judges for the photography award were Ben Harman of Stills Gallery, Malcolm Dickson of Street Level Photoworks and Siobhan Coward of the Richard and Siobhan Coward Foundation.
The SPA Exhibition runs until 2 December at The Scottish Arts Club in Rutland Square, Edinburgh. More information is available here.
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