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Black Isle artist remembered in new award


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Fortrose Academy leaver Joe Inman receives the award from Caroline Hewat's daughters, Jade (left) and Corrina.
Fortrose Academy leaver Joe Inman receives the award from Caroline Hewat's daughters, Jade (left) and Corrina.

Caroline Hewat from the Black Isle passed away in December 2015.

As well as being an artist, Ms Hewat was a development manager with the Cromarty Arts Trust and worked tirelessly to promote arts and culture in Cromarty, the Black Isle and beyond.

Trust chairman John Nightingale and staff were eager to create a lasting legacy in her name and launched the Cromarty Arts Trust Caroline Hewat Prize.

Open to senior Fortrose Academy pupils, it seeks "a student who has shown commitment, passion and a natural interest and flair for art and design throughout their studies at Fortrose Academy".

The prize is a two-week paid internship with the Cromarty Arts Trust, managing a project from inception to fruition, allowing the recipient a practical, first-hand experience of organisation, administration and marketing in an arts environment.

The recipient of the inaugural award is Joe Inman, a unanimous choice by staff at Fortrose Academy.

In his advanced higher art portfolio, he made impressive use of a wide range of traditional and modern techniques to produce a proposal for a museum and visitor centre at Fortrose Cathedral.

This involved countless hours of research from historic documents and site visits, development of concepts using various modelling techniques.

Head of department Nino Meehan explained: "Joe was a worthy winner because of his consistent and determined application to a career in architecture over a number of years, which he will be continuing at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen."

Joe’s award was presented to him by Ms Hewat’s two daughters, Corrina and Jade Hewat, themselves both former pupils of Fortrose Academy.

Corrina said: "We are extremely honored that the Cromarty Arts Trust have initiated an award in memory of our mum, Caroline, and that we are able to be here for this first presentation to such a worthy student.

"Our mum was a tireless supporter of all the arts – with her work at the Cromarty Arts Trust, her own professional artistic endeavors in oils, acrylics, mixed media, wood and clay plus her support in musical terms with her two Highland choirs, Feis Rois, the Ukulele School, the continued promotion of the Scottish tradition in the Highlands and also through the 23 years of coordinating Celtic Connections community workshops.

"To list all that mum did would take too long and there are not enough words to try and convey how supportive she was to us right through our lives in our own endeavors.

"She would be extremely humbled to know her memory lives on in ways she could not have imagined."


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