Three commissions are available at a fee £4,500 each for the Coast festival of Visual Arts. Artists are invited to create a temporary piece of work in the towns of Banff and Macduff that responds to the theme ???Revealing the Unseen???. The interventions will coincide with Coast, a major visual arts festival that will take place in the towns for the first time 23???26 May 2008.

Deadline for applications: Monday 22nd October 2007

The work will be sited in and should respond to specific locations in these traditional harbour towns. Artists will be encouraged to address a series of potential sites and situations, including a former outdoor swimming pool complex, the Macduff shipyard, and Banff Castle and the moated area around.

For full information about the commissions and details fo how to apply, please contact Bryan Angus (Coast Board member): Tel. 01261 812276 or email bryan.angus@tiscali.co.uk

For informal enquiries on the arts in the area and for general background, contact Saskia Gibbon (Aberdeenshire Council Arts Development Officer): Tel 01261 815989 / 07881 834381 or email saskia.gibbon@aberdeenshire.gov.uk

For more details please visit www.coastfestival.org.uk/