Scotland’s Answer to the Turner Prize Announces Shortlist

PAISLEY, UK.- A former chart-topping recording artist has been chosen as one of four finalists in Scotland’s answer to the Turner Prize. Steven Lindsay found fame as the lead singer of Glasgow-based band, The Big Dish, whose best known single was Miss America. Now the singer, who attended Glasgow School of Art in the early 1980s, along with Scottish contemporary art stars, Steven Conroy and Alison Watt, has been short listed for one of the art word’s biggest privately funded awards, The Aspect Prize. His three fellow finalists are; Adam Kennedy, whose brother Paul Kennedy was short listed for the last year’s prize, Rowena Comrie, who recently completed a 20ft map of Scotland for the BBC painted on tarmac and Frances Law, a Kirriemuir-based artist who won the Scottish National Art Prize in 2008. All four artists received £5,000 at the opening of the annual Aspect Prize exhibition at Paisley Art Gallery & Museum on Friday night (11/6/10). The quartet are now in l

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