SCOTLAND NAMES SIX ARTISTS FOR VENICE PAVILION

Six artists were unveiled yesterday as the representatives of Scotland for this year’s Venice Biennale, writes Phil Miller for The Herald. Charles Avery, Henry Coombes, Louise Hopkins, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lucy Skaer, and Tony Swain will fill several rooms of a seventeenth-century palace in Venice with new contemporary art as part of the 52nd running of the event. The six artists, the biggest group so far representing the country, have different relationships to Scotland: Avery, whose work is inspired by his upbringing in the Highlands and Islands, is from Oban, and the others have all studied at the Glasgow School of Art, with several based in the city. Four of the artists are represented by Doggerfisher, a gallery in Edinburgh. The curator of the pavilion is Philip Long.