SEVENTEEN people are to be included in the professional development programme that is part of Scotland's forthcoming show at the Venice Biennale.
Charlotte Prodger, the Turner Prize winning artist, is to present the Scotland + Venice show this year.
The show is curated by Cove Park, and that residency centre is organising the development programme that accompanies the show.
This year it has been organised with six Scottish art schools and colleges, as well as the Scottish Contemporary Art Network and the Templar Arts and Leisure Centre in Argyll.
The 17 chosen will stay in Venice and "learn new skills, develop professional and international networks and gain professional experience in the unique setting of the Venice Biennale, one of the world’s biggest and most prestigious contemporary visual arts festivals."
Those who will take part come from City of Glasgow College, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Glasgow School of Art, Gray's School of Art, TALC, SCAN and the University of Highlands and Islands.
La Biennale di Venezia runs from 11 May to 24 November in 2019.
Charlotte Prodger’s exhibition will take place at Arsenale Docks.
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A CONCERT is to be held at St Mary's Church, Arisaig to commemorate the sinking of the Glenart Castle hospital ship in 1918.
The concert is to be presented by Bravehound and McOpera and will be a performance of Mozart's Requiem, conducted by John Marshall.
One of the soloists for the concert, Fiona MacDonald, is an opera singer and founder of the Bravehound initiative, which matches veterans with companion dogs to support their rehabilitation and provide therapy for those diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
She was inspired to set it up in memory of her great aunt, the nurse Mary McKinnon, originally from Arisaig, who was killed on the hospital ship Glenart Castle in 1918.
She said: “We believe that supporting current veterans is the best way to honour the lives of those who died in the First World War.
"I’m delighted that a group of 20 veterans that we support in our Bravehound centre at Erskine, Bishopton, will travel to St Mary’s Church, Arisaig to be part of this commemoration."
The choir for this performance are all professional singers, from the Chorus of Scottish Opera, professional operatic friends and recent RCS vocal graduates.
Music Co-OPERAtive Scotland (McOpera) was formed in the spring of 2012 by musicians from the Orchestra of Scottish Opera.
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THE artist Martin Boyce is to stage a solo exhibition at Mount Stuart, Bute, this summer.
He will present art work in the landscaped grounds of the house, inspired by a dismantled tennis court.
He said: "Over the years I’ve photographed a number of abandoned or disused tennis courts and I’ve collected similar images from books or cut from magazines.
"There is something fascinating about this rectangle of chain link fence that at once demarcates one place from another, one delineated use or activity from another. Equally fascinating is how over time this idea of use can shift, from organised tennis games to more improvised versions of play to, in a state of disrepair, a place to meet and hangout. It is this in between state that interests me."
An Inn For The Phantoms Of The Outside And In is to be sited midway from the gardens entrance to Mount Stuart.
Boyce represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale 2009 with the exhibition No Reflections and was the winner of the 2011 Turner Prize.
He recently unveiled a major new commission Remembered Skies at the Tate Britain (2017) as part of the Clore Galleries and is Professor of Sculpture at HFBK, Hamburg.
It will run from 25 May to 18 November.
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