Royal Scottish Academy William Littlejohn Award

The Royal Scottish Academy has announced that Sarah Casey is the recipient of the 2024 William Littlejohn Award.

The prize is for "Excellence and Innovation in Water-based Media", funded by The William Littlejohn Bequest and administered by the Royal Scottish Academy, consists of:

• A monetary award to research, develop and produce a new body of work in a water-based medium

• An exhibition of selected completed work at the Royal Scottish Academy at a future date

• Acquisition of work into the Royal Scottish Academy's Collection, a Recognised Collection of National Significance. 

Sarah plans to use the award to explore the potential of print, making screenrprints using water-based inks made from glacial flour, which will be gathered from post glacial sites in both Switzerland and Scotland.