The Strathearn Gallery in Crieff
The Jolomo Awards 2009
Image below: Scott Irvine, Fiona Maguire, John Lowrie Morrison, Owen and Edith Maguire attending the launch of the 2009 Awards at the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh on 24th September 2008. (photography - Peter Sandground)
Jolomo exhibits regularly at The Strathearn Gallery.
Image below: The Jolomo Award 2009 by Scott Irvine. "This award was inspired by a winter sunset after a stormy day, seen on a return journey from Crieff. The red in the sky was unbelievably rich."
Scott Irvine who was commissioned to design and make the Jolomo awards is also a regular exhibitor.
Left to right: Fiona Maguire, Tim Davison, Mandy Irvine, Owen Maguire, Edith Maguire and Scott Irvine at the Jolomo Awards ceremony. Photography - Peter Sandground
The seven Jolomo Awards 2009 finalists will be exhibitng at the Strathearn Gallery from 13th February - 20th March 2010.
The Strathearn Gallery was recently asked to co-sponsor the prestigious Jolomo Awards 2009 for Scottish Landscape Painting. Together with the other co-sponsors: The Scotsman; Lloyds TSB; Caledonian MacBrayne and Balblair Whisky; gallery owners Owen, Edith and Fiona Maguire attended the launch of the 2009 Awards at the National Galleries of Scotland on the Mound in Edinburgh on 24th September 2008.
The Jolomo Awards were established by the artist John Lowrie Morrison in 2006 to support, encourage and promote the painting of the Scottish landscape. The Awards seek to recognise young and emerging artists who are moving Scottish landscape painting forward, and support them in their development. With a main prize of £20,000 and total prize money of up to £30,000, the Jolomo Awards are among the most important painting prizes in the UK.
Artists were invited to submit work by the end of January 2009 for consideration by a panel of judges including John Leighton, Director-General, National Galleries of Scotland; Nick Curnow, Fine Art Auctioneer, Lyon & Turnbull; Manus Fullerton, Corporate and Commercial Banking Director at Lloyds TSB Scotland; Geoff Kranenburg, gallery owner, Kranenburg Fine Art; Susan Mansfield, arts journalist, The Scotsman and John Lowrie Morrison, Chairman, The Jolomo Foundation.
From over seventy submissions, a shortlist of seven artists was drawn up featuring Rosanne Barr (27) of Invergowrie, Dundee and a graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art; Toby Cooke (22) of Port of Menteith, Stirling and a graduate of Edinburgh College of Art; Jack Frame (25) living in Helensburgh and a graduate of Glasgow School of Art; Maurice Forsyth-Grant (45) of St Cyrus, Angus and a graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art; Claudia Massie (31) of Forgandenny, Perthshire and a graduate of Edinburgh College of Art; Keith Salmon (49) living in Irvine, Ayrshire and a graduate of Falmouth School of Art and Alastair Strachan (49) lives in Glasgow and is a graduate of Edinburgh College of Art.
The 2009 Awards were presented at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow on 12th June. The winner of The Jolomo Awards 2009 was Keith Salmon who receives £20,000. The second Award went to Toby Cooke who receives £5,000. There were two third equal Awards which went to Alastair Strachan and Jack Frame, both of whom receive £2,500.
John Lowrie Morrison was born in Glasgow and trained at Glasgow School of Art. He worked in education for 25 years, resigning in 1997 to paint full-time. In the last decade John has become one of Scotland’s most successful living artists. He lives and works in Argyll.
The Strathearn Gallery’s first solo exhibition of John’s paintings was in 1997 and there have been six further solo shows since. As The Strathearn Gallery actively encourage up and coming talent in Scotland, it is a great honour for the gallery to be a co-sponsor the 2009 Jolomo Awards.
For further information visit the Jolomo Foundation website.