Alt-w Exhibition Award -
Robert Powell
@robert_powell_artist

1st August to 2nd November 2025
. FREE
Edinburgh Printmakers, 1 Dundee Street EH3 9FP

Humanity's complexity, grandeur and folly is explored in this installation where unique imagery, in intricate and thought-provoking compositions, seeks to capture time. Inspired by medieval Books of Hours, Robert Powell's latest exhibition features animation, prints, sculpture and sound installation, reflecting how we experience, order and preserve time.

Alt-w Production Award -
David Cass with Sam Healy
davidcass.art

3rd June to 26th July 2025. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

What happens at Earth’s poles affects us all; combined, they are our planet’s thermostat. Loss of ice in these places has a direct impact on our seas globally; and weather, perhaps the principal consideration for all who go to sea, becomes increasingly unpredictable.

This generative artwork explores global warming and ice-melt, with the 2025 Tall Ships Races as an anchor.

Alt-w Production Award - Daira Ronzoni
dairaronzoni.com

1st April to 31st May 2025. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

Beneath the burning desert sun, metallic roots twist, a feathered snake glides, and arms of water flow through an Earth tree, glistening with fireflies. On motley rocks corn sprouts as mushrooms take root. Night falls, stars shimmer, and branches of Araucaria extend spiked arms in search of an embrace. Quaresmeira flowers bloom as the Spider Goddess scatters seeds in this virtual landscape.

Cycle 15 Alt-w Production Award - Staunch Industries
staunchindustries.com

3rd December 2024 to 31st March 2025. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

An invitation to journey - an exploration of landscapes both familiar and fantastical, guided by the unbroken flow of a pure white line against a vast black canvas. Each element - a castle perched on a winding path, a lone tree, a wave curling into the unknown - represents a place of potential, an anchor in this visual narrative of discovery.

Cycle 15 Alt-w Production Award - David Bellingham
@davidbellingham_

4th June to 3rd August 2024. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

As part of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Peacock, the printmaking workshop based in Aberdeen, we've co-commissioned a new piece of animated work for the Music Hall by Glasgow and Copenhagen-based artist, printmaker and publisher David Bellingham.

Bellingham's work is poetic and concise. He uses a diverse range of media, from painting and sculptural installation to books, postcards and other printed material, to explore the relationships between objects, words and contexts, often inverting our preconceptions about them.

The application deadline has now passed.

Are you a digital artist between the age of 18 and 28 based in Scotland? Do you want the chance to have your own solo exhibition with a £7.5k production award?

Hotel Generation is a yearly, UK-wide development programme that provides vital mentoring and support to young digital artists. You’ll have the chance to be mentored by New Media Scotland in preparing an exhibition proposal around the theme ‘The Body, The Mind, The Soul’. The winning artist, selected by a panel of industry experts, will have a solo exhibition at arebyte Gallery in London.