HELENSBURGH will play host next week to the UK premiere of a major new work by a Turner Prize winning artist which was commissioned in partnership with the Cove Park artists’ centre.

Charlotte Prodger’s work, SaF05, will be screened on Thursday, June 27, at the Tower Digital Arts Centre in the town – at the same time as it is presented to audiences in Venice.

Tickets for next week’s special screening at the Tower are free, and are available now.

Having attracted nearly 6,000 visitors from across the globe during its world premiere at the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, the new single-channel video installation will tour Scotland after its Helensburgh screening, with subsequent showings over the coming months in Glasgow, Campbeltown, Skye, Stornoway, Shetland and Aberdeen.

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SaF05 was commissioned by the Scotland + Venice partnership, and curated by Linsey Young in partnership with Cove Park, where Prodger developed her first ideas for the Scotland + Venice commission.

Alexia Holt, associate director of Cove Park, said: “We are thrilled to launch SaF05 in Argyll and Bute and at Cove Park’s local cinema, The Tower.

“The Scottish tour is a wonderful opportunity for audiences here in Scotland to see this major new work by Charlotte Prodger and we look forward to working with all our partners on this programme as the work tours Scotland’s west coast, Highlands and Islands between June and November 2019.”

Amanda Catto, chair of the Scotland + Venice partnership and head of visual arts at Creative Scotland said: “Scotland + Venice is delighted to be presenting Prodger’s new film to communities across Scotland, with additional funding support from Screen Scotland, Art Fund and Outset Scotland.

“People who come to the tour will be able to enjoy the film at the same time that it is being premiered in Venice, creating a significant opportunity to reach out to new audiences here.

“This initiative also brings Charlotte’s work closer to the rural locations and landscapes that have informed her thinking and practice, making this a unique series of screenings and a very special experience for those who attend.”

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Prodger’s new work draws upon multiple sources – archival, scientific and diaristic – and combines footage from several geographical locations, including the Scottish Highlands, the Great Basin Desert, the Okavango Delta and the Ionian Islands.

This autobiographical cycle of the work traces the accumulation of affinities, desires and losses that form a person as they move forward in time.

Charlotte Prodger was born in Bournemouth in 1974 and studied at Goldsmiths in London and at the Glasgow School of Art. She now lives and works in Glasgow.

The winner of the 2018 Turner Prize, Prodger has also received the 2014 Margaret Tait Award and the Paul Hamlyn Award in 2017.

She undertook her first residency at Cove Park in 2010, taking part in a residency programme designed to support early career visual artists, and returned again in the summer of 2018 to develop her first ideas for the Scotland + Venice commission.