Deadline: 25-Jun-23
The Morton Charitable Trust has launched the RSA Morton Award for artists working in a lens-based media in Scotland.
The award is funded by The Morton Charitable Trust and administered by the Royal Scottish Academy and consists of:
- Monetary award to research, develop and produce a new body of work in a lens-based medium
- Exhibition of selected completed work at the RSA in 2024.
- Acquisition of work into the prestigious RSA Permanent Collections.
Award Information
- Upto: £5,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Artists must be working in a lens-based media (includes digital & analogue photography, film and video)
- Artists must have been born in Scotland, or have studied at a Scottish art school, or have been resident in Scotland for at least 3 years.
- Undergraduate or postgraduate students are not eligible.
Conditions of Entry
- Entry conditions and requirements must be strictly adhered to or applications may be rejected.
- A shortlist of artists will be invited to present their project to the Panel of Adjudicators on Monday 4 September 2023 (this will be hybrid; via Zoom and/or in person).
- The decision of the adjudicators is final and no correspondence can be entered into.
- The award should not be used as a capital grant.
- The award winner will be announced by the end of September 2023.
- The award should be completed by May 2024.
- The winner will exhibit selected resulting work at the RSA the following year in consultation with the Academy. Further arrangements will be determined in consultation with the winner.
- The Royal Scottish Academy reserves the right to accession one representative work or DVD from the artist into the RSA Permanent Collection.
- The copyright of all works remain with the artist but it is a condition of entry that the Royal Scottish Academy reserves the right of reproduction of all submitted and resultant works for publicity/educational/reference purposes in connection with the award.
- Personal information supplied by applicants on registration/application forms will be held securely by the Royal Scottish Academy in accordance with The EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).
For more information, visit Morton Charitable Trust.