Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital
A comprehensive scheme of artwork involving numerous artists co-ordinated by PACE, a public arts agency, has used a wide range of media throughout the hospital to produce an uplifting atmosphere in both wards and public areas, through an imaginative use of child centred images. Interactive play sculptures in waiting areas, entertaining photography and colourful graphics along corridors, fascinating facts about the human body inscribed around pillars and up stairways, and some very large friendly creatures visible through the ward windows, have created a delightful environment for all who spend time in the hospital as patients, visitors or staff. This is an exemplary project where PACE and the Arts Group worked with children, staff and architects from the initial planning stages to completion of the building, and have remained involved. Significant funding for the artworks was achieved through public, private and corporate donations from the hospital's catchment area, with the names of all donors inscribed on coloured tiles producing a further decorative graphic mural inside the main entrance.
Commissioner: PACE for the Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital Arts Group.
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Commendations:
Salt Pan Entrance Gates, Bo'ness
A pair of elegant galvanised iron gates by Phil Johnson providing secure access to the gardens of a small sheltered housing complex, recently converted by the National Trust for Scotland from an eighteenth century town house. The grey iron finish relates well to the refurbished stonework, painted harling, and traditional red corrugated iron roofs, while the forms involved in the construction of the gates reflect earlier local industries of salt production and whaling.
Commissioner: The National Trust for Scotland
Doulton Fountain restoration, Glasgow Green
While the craftsmanship and sensitive use of material demonstrated by Ibstock Hathernware in this major reconstruction and restoration of a fine Victorian commemorative fountain was recognised by the panel, it was recommended for commendation particularly for the impact that its new siting and related earthworks and gardens have on the entire outlook of the Peoples Palace, the adjacent area of Glasgow Green, and the unique skyline of spires, obelisks and Victorian warehouses visible in the vicinity.
Commissioner: Glasgow City Council Land Services
The Praise Window, Dornoch Cathedral
A constructive collaboration between Alison Kinnaird and Patrick Ross Smith produced a sensitive memorial window demonstrating the particular strengths of both artists. The window illustrates the choral and instrumental contribution of the cathedral's late musical director to whom it is dedicated, and employs sandblasted and engraved figures on large stained glass panels. This is the latest in a series of commissioned windows whose colour enlivens the bold interior stonework of this ancient building.
Commissioner: Mrs Isabel Anderson
Mentions:
Lie of the land, The Community School of Auchterarder - Secondary
The Playground, The Community School of Auchterarder - Primary
The selectors were impressed by the comprehensive application of artworks throughout the school and its grounds, noting particularly Lie of the Land, a scheme representing local river systems inlaid in the corridor floors in the secondary school designed by Samantha Clark, and The Playground, an imaginative arrangement of playful forms safely built into the rubber surfaced primary school playground designed by Susie Hunter.
Commissioner: PACE for The Community School of Auchterarder
Tapestry and Picture Collection, College of Medicine, Little France, Edinburgh
An impressive colourful tapestry designed by Alan Davie and woven by the Edinburgh Tapestry Company hangs in a striking position in the main entrance of the Medical College and is visible form all three floors. This major work is supported by a large number of thoughtfully selected prints, many by Scottish artists, hung throughout the corridors, lecture rooms and study areas of the school, available to all who use the building.
Commissioner: College of Medicine, University of Edinburgh
Growth, interior window, RGA Consulting, Edinburgh
The selectors appreciated the company's initiative in commissioning a series of stained glass panels from Emma Butler-Cole to serve as an office divider where one might conventionally find a reed glass screen. In addition to providing an effective divider, the panels introduce a colourful relief into the office.
Commissioner: RGA Consulting
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