Motion: A Double Success for Campbeltown Painting Award Winners

A Double Success for Campbeltown Painting Award Winners

Lodged by Jamie McGrigor Standard Motion 20 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament congratulates Dawnne McGeachy, a Glasgow-based artist originally from Campbeltown in Argyll, on winning the 2013 Jolomo Bank of Scotland Painting Award; notes that what it considers this highly prestigious annual award was announced at a ceremony in Glasgow at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum on 19 June 2013; also commends the runners-up, Ruth Nicol and Amy Dennis, and all those who entered the competition, which is Scotland’s biggest art prize and the largest privately funded arts awards in the UK; further congratulates Justine Nawrot, a pupil from Campbeltown Grammar School, on her success in winning the 2013 Jolomo Schools Painting Award; notes that this biennial award was presented by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning at an event in the Parliament on 6 June 2013; also commends all those who entered this competition, which promotes and encourages painting of Scottish landscapes and is open to senior pupils in all Scottish schools; is aware that both awards are organised by the Jolomo Foundation; pays warm tribute to John Lowrie Morrison (Jolomo), one of Scotland’s most successful contemporary painters, whose retrospective, A Passion for Colour, is running at Clydebank Town Hall Museum and Gallery until 21 September, and to the Jolomo Foundation for what it considers its generous support of emerging artists living and working in Scotland and of budding artists at school, and hopes that these awards will continue to assist and inspire Scottish landscape artists for many years to come.

Supporters (20)