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Sarah Forrest: April

Sarah Forrest is an artist based in Glasgow, whose creative practice incorporates video, writing, object making and installation that she presents in a variety of forms, including gallery-based installations, single-screen presentations in cinemas or exhibitions, publications and performances. Solo exhibitions include: Again, it objects, Kunstraum Dusseldorf, Germany (2016); I Left it on Page 32, Supplement, London (2014); Two Solo Shows: Sarah Forrest and Mounira Al Sohl, CCA, Glasgow (2013). Recent group exhibitions include: Maintenant et Encore (with Linda Sanchez), 3 Bis F, Aix-en-Provence, France; Against Time, co-curated by Paula Zambrano and Sarah Strang for Glasgow International, Civic Room, Glasgow; Cabinet Interventions, Glasgow International, Pollok House, Glasgow (all 2018). She was recipient of the 2017/18 Margaret Tait Award.

Brian Dillon is a writer and critic, and UK editor of Cabinet magazine. He is the author of several books of criticism, fiction, memoir and creative nonfiction. Since 2001 Brian Dillon has been writing on art, books and culture for many publications in the UK and elsewhere. His book reviews and essays have appeared in the Guardian, New York Times, White Review, London Review of Books, Gorse, Times Literary Supplement and the Irish Times. He writes regularly on contemporary art for such publications as frieze, Artforum, Art Review, Aperture and Tate etc. Since 2003 he has been UK editor of Cabinet, a quarterly journal of art and culture based in New York. He has curated exhibitions for Tate Britain and Hayward Touring, and written catalogue essays for artists such as Helen Marten, Rachel Whiteread, David Noonan, Eva Rothschild and Damien Hirst. He is a regular speaker on art and culture at institutions such as Tate, the Pompidou Centre, the British Museum, the Wellcome Collection and Whitechapel Gallery.

Elsa Richardson is a cultural historian based at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Her research considers the relation of heterodox practices, beliefs and movements to mainstream society and culture, with a particular focus on the interaction between medicine and the imagination, science and the supernatural, psychology and the occult. In Second Sight in the Nineteenth Century (2017), she examined the place of extraordinary visionary experience in the Victorian scientific and popular imaginary.

LUX Scotland is a part of LUX. Established in 2014, the non-profit agency is supported by Creative Scotland, and dedicated to supporting, developing and promoting artists’ moving image practices in Scotland. One of its current priorities is the establishment of a new distribution collection of artists’ moving image based in Scotland.

The Margaret Tait Award is a Glasgow Film Festival commission supported by Creative Scotland and LUX Scotland. Inspired by the pioneering Orcadian filmmaker and writer Margaret Tait (1918–99), the award was established in 2010 to support experimental and innovative artists working with the moving image, providing a high profile platform for them to exhibit newly commissioned work and engage with a wider audience.