Works by Scottish Turner prizewinners and nominees will be seen across Scotland in a travelling show due to crisscross the country in a specially adapted bus. Artists featured in the touring exhibition, Eyes on the Prize, include Martin Boyce (Turner prizewinner, 2011), Ciara Phillips—a nominee in 2014— and Douglas Gordon (1996 winner).
Most of the works are on loan from the artists and their galleries, while Martin Boyce’s sculptural installation, Ventilation Grilles (Punching Through The Clouds), 2004, comes from the City Art Centre in Edinburgh.
The Travelling Gallery vehicle will venture as far north as the Highlands and the Orkney Islands, stopping at galleries, community centres and schools. The tour begins in Edinburgh (22-28 August), with 13 further stops scheduled in towns and regions such as North Ayrshire and East Dunbartonshire.
The bus’s final stop is Glasgow (30 November-5 December), coinciding with the announcement of this year’s winner on 7 December at Tramway which is hosting the Turner Prize exhibition this year (1 October-17 January 2016). The four shortlisted artists for the £25,000 prize are Assemble, Bonnie Camplin, Janice Kerbel and Nicole Wermers.
Amanda Catto, the head of visual arts at Creative Scotland, the public arts body which is supporting the Turner Prize, says: “The Travelling Gallery is a unique resource that takes some of the very best art to some of the harder to reach places in Scotland.”