Firstly Glasgow born Susan Philipsz won the Turner Prize for her sound installation Lowlands. She is the first female Scottish winner of the prize and now joins fellow Scots and Scots based Turner winners Douglas Gordon, Martin Creed, Simon Starling and Richard Wright. (We're an artistic bunch up here don't you know)
Lowlands was an installation originally presented at the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art earlier this year. Recordings of Philipsz singing three versions of the folk song Lowlands were installed under George V Bridge, the Caledonian Road Bridge and Glasgow Bridge. It is also the first time a sound installation has won the coveted prize.
Secondly a subject very close to my heart...curry.
Glasgow has regained its title as Curry Capital of Britain. And rightly so...anyone who has ever eaten at Mother India's Cafe will concur. The competition was organised as part of National Curry Week, an excuse to indulge in pakora and chana daal if ever there was.
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