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.