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51 William Chambers NOT JUST A HATSTAND
While the likes of Christopher Kane are swanning about Milan, we need equally brilliant talents like William Chambers, whose hats have been everywhere from Elle to Vogue, as well as on numerous celebrity heads, this year to keep the home fires stoked with creativity. (KI)
50 Maureen Beattie POWERHOUSE PERFORMER
Maureen Beattie is currently one of the busiest — and most highly regarded — stage actors at work in the UK. Returning to Scotland in 2009 she won acclaim for her powerful performance as Mrs Alving in Ghosts and provided the beating heart of Stellar Quines’ The Girls of Slender Means at the Fringe. She returns north of the border in 2010 for a new project with the National Theatre of Scotland. (AR)
49 Washington Garcia COMTEMPORARY ART SPACE
One of Glasgow’s most impressive contemporary art operations expanded this year, basing itself in Eastvale Place and hosting a series of exhibitions by emerging and established artists. Highlights included Use History Autonome, the first solo exhibition at Washington Garcia by sculptor Nick Evans, a former GSA student; the first Scottish exhibition by London film artist Shezad Dawood and a new body of work by Mark Briggs, winner of the Washington Garcia Residency 2009. (AR)
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48 Tony Mills BREAKDANCER
Mills began 2009 by hosting The Dancin’ at Edinburgh’s Hogmanay, an extravaganza that took dance to the masses. He went on to co-arrange the hip hop event of the year, Breakin’ Convention, before performing at the Edinburgh Fringe himself. Breakdance in Scotland is healthier than ever, thanks in no small part to Mills’ unflagging enthusiasm. (KA)
47 Holly Fulton DESIGN DARLING
The Young Scottish Fashion Designer of the Year 2009 has had some of her bolder pieces picked out by style deity Patricia Field for the second Sex and the City movie. Recently honoured at the British Fashion Awards, Holly Fulton is rapidly climbing the ladder. (AW) 24 THE LIST 17 Dec 2009–7 Jan 2010
possibly even more desirable textiles and homewares), and a major exhibition/installation of Creatures and felted worlds at the Lighthouse. (KI)
39 Gerard Butler HOLLYWOOD HEAVYWEIGHT
This year Butler (pictured, below) cemented his position as an A-list leading man with romcom The Ugly Truth and sci-fi actioner Gamer, while gritty revenge thriller Law Abiding Citizen is still screening at your local multiplex. He was also named as the Ambassador for Glasgow Film Office earlier this month. (HN)
38 Chris Hoy STEELY-THIGHED CYCLIST
After the enormous success of the 2008 Olympics, this year has been mixed for Hoy, with a crash in
Denmark resulting in injuries which caused him to miss the World
Championships in Poland. Away from the track, however, he penned his autobiography before returning to add three more gold medals to his growing collection at the British
National Cycling
Championships.
(AC)
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46 Jason Donald PROMISING NEW WRITER
42 Malcolm Fraser ACCOLADED ARCHITECT
This South African born, Glasgow- based author received glowing reviews for his debut novel, Choke Chain, published this spring. The story of two brothers growing up in a poor neighbourhood of 1980s Pretoria, under the shadow of their macho bully dad, was a moving, tender portrait of life under an intimidating regime. (CS)
45 Dundee Contemporary Arts
MULTIPURPOSE ARTS SPACE
To mark its tenth anniversary Dundee’s contemporary art gallery mounted a compelling group exhibition, The Associates, which showcased the talents of 17 artists trained and nurtured at the city’s Duncan of Jordanstone College, who have now gone on to great things. Featured names included Luke Fowler, Katy Dove and Steven Cairns. (AR)
44 Park Circus LOCAL FILM DISTRIBUTORS
In the London-centric, new-release driven world of film distribution, Glasgow based Park Circus dare to be — and succeed in being — different. Specialising in digital reissues of old film classics, this year they have brought The Godfather, The Red Shoes, From Russia With Love and This Sporting Life among many others back to a new generation of moviegoers. Park Circus were also responsible for releasing one of the best feature documentaries of the year with Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno. (PD)
43 Eleanor Thom AWARD-WINNING NOVELIST
This Ayr-based Londoner hit literary paydirt with her short story ‘The Mumpers’ being read on Radio 4 and a warmly welcomed novel The Tin-Kin, a fiction based on her family’s Traveller heritage. The book earned her an early Christmas present in the shape of the Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year. (BD)
This year Fraser’s practice completed a versatile new base for Scottish Ballet at the Tramway in Glasgow, as well as working on commissions from a field station in Glen Nevis to a sensitive yet forward-thinking plan for the redevelopment of Stromness Pierhead. As the newly appointed Edinburgh University Geddes Professorial Fellow he is leading public and academic debates about how to integrate modern architecture and city planning with heritage concerns. (LE)
41 Max Richter AWARD-WINNING COMPOSER
AND MUSICIAN
Another busy year for the Edinburgh- based, Fatcat-signed composer and musician. The release of animated feature film Waltz With Bashir in January, featuring Richter’s award-winning score, was followed up with the re-release of his long out-of-print album Memoryhouse, recorded with the BBC Royal Philharmonic. The Waltz With Bashir OST album made a few end of year polls too. (HB)
40 Donna Wilson TERRIFIC TEXTILES
The Scottish textile designer has had a great year, with her weird and wonderful craft-mutant Creatures being featured in all the major style bibles (as have her more regular, achingly cool and