The Burriss Bursary

This is an annual bursary for a non-professional artist in Prestonpans and Vicinity to create a 'new' work that will join the permanent collection at The Arts Festival.

The bursary is for £2000 invested over 12 months with applications considered each June for the following year.

The Terms for the Burriss Bursary are linked here.

Jeannette Burriss was an art teacher in the vicinity most of her life, but as an art student took for her dissertation topic the historical buildings of Prestonpans. The dissertation has been turned into a small booklet and now offered for sale by The Arts Festival with the proceeds going towards the bursary.

The booklet is viewable here on line - Historical Survey of Prestonpans - or can be ordered in hard copy at the Prestoungrange Gothenburg or here online.

The inaugural winner was June Coull for 2004/ 2005. She gave an Exhibition at the year end of her work at The Prestoungrange Gothenburg and greeted the incoming artists for the following year.

There were joint bursary winners for 2005/ 2006, Adele Robertson and Margaret Fraser. Following the precedent set by June Coull, they exhibited in July 2006 for four weeks commencing Gothenburg Day, 23rd.

That was also the day the 2006/ 2008 Awards Winners Patrick Fox and Gardener Molloy were announced in the run-up to The Goth's Centenary Year. The year's applications were so outstanding that the occasion saw a total of five Bursaries and Fellowships in all announced to everyone's delight including The Lord Novar and Sir John Ross Fellowships for the first time, and a Bursary from the Battle of Prestonpans 1745 Heritage Trust. Full details are reported here.

The Exhibition of Burris Bursary works by Patrick Fox and interim reports from others on July 23rd 2007 will be a particularly special occasion as the Lord Mayor of Goteborg who vsiited on the same date in 2003 is returning "to see how we have progressed".