BELLADRUM TARTAN HEART FESTIVAL & TOMATIN DISTILLERY CALL FOR ARTISTS TO CELEBRATE 10TH ANNIVERSARY
For the last four years Belladrum Festival has been supported by our friends at Tomatin Distillery. This year, to celebrate Bella’s 10th Birthday, the Distillery has kindly offered to donate up to 30 whisky casks to create a work of art to be displayed at the festival.
Over the previous years, Belladrum has showcased a variety of works by professional installation artists and this year with it being the 10th anniversary, it seemed the perfect opportunity to launch a public call to artists/sculptors/makers/designers to submit ideas/designs for the creation of a news piece of art to be installed at the festival.
This year we are looking for an artist or a collaboration of artists to design and build an artwork piece using the whisky casks, which will engage, inspire and amaze the public and create a lasting memory.
‘We’re delighted to be blending the fine art of distilling top quality whisky with the fine art of creativity’ Joe Gibbs, Belladrum Festival
“As the official whisky brand of Belladrum, we wanted to do something a bit different to mark ten years of this fantastic festival. Casks and wood management are paramount for us in producing our quality whisky, so it’s fitting that are they are at the heart of this competition. We are excited to see the entries and look forward to appreciating the final design in years to come!” Jennifer Nicol, Marketing Manager for Tomatin Distillery
The piece can be practical (e.g. a giant chair or shelter), or it can be aesthetic or interactive. Artists many choose to combine it with other art forms such as performance or different mediums and materials.
This year the festival theme is CARNIVAL which could be chosen as inspiration for the piece or this could be ignored entirely.
Artists are being asked to register their interest in taking part using the on-line form which can be found at www.tartanheartfestival.co.uk
The deadline for submissions is 30th April 2013
Belladrum 2013 takes place on the 2nd and 3d of August in the beautiful Highland surroundings of Belladrum Estate, near Beauly in Inverness-shire. The independent festival has built a reputation for its eclectic line-ups, its off beat non-musical entertainments and its all-ages approach. The festival won a VisitScotland Thistle Award in 2009 and is a past winner of the Grassroots Festival Award at the UK Festival Awards, the festival industry’s ‘oscars’.
Advance adult weekend tickets are £95. They include parking and camping, except for campervans and caravans which will be charged £50 per vehicle or £130 to include electrical hook-up.. As in previous years, tickets for children 12 & under are free. Online e-tickets are available from Skiddle (www.skiddle.com); limited numbers of printed tickets are available from TicketScotland (www.tickets-scotland.com) in Edinburgh, and Glasgow, One-Up in Aberdeen, The Ironworks, Mania, Hootenanny’s and Eden Court in Inverness; Sweet Treats in Dingwall, Sound & Vision in Elgin, Morrison’s Ironmongers in Beauly and Kiltarlity Post Office.
