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Scots artist on Turner shortlist

Nathan Coley, a Scottish artist who specialises in creating cardboard models of religious buildings has been nominated for the 2007 Turner Prize.

Coley, 39, from Glasgow, paints gaudy stripes similar to a circus big top on his models.

His previous work includes a series of drawings inspired by the trial of the Lockerbie bombers.

The winner of the £25,000 prize will be announced on 3 December at the Tate Gallery in Liverpool.

Mr Coley, who studied at the Glasgow School of Art, uses a variety of different media to explore belief systems.

He was nominated for his exhibition at Mount Stuart, on the Isle of Bute, the installation of the Camouflage Church at Santiago de Compostela, in Spain, and his contribution to an exhibition of British art in Belgrade.

He has previously created a scale model of the Marks & Spencer store in Manchester which was damaged by an IRA bomb in 1992.

While in 2004 he created a scale cardboard model of each of the 286 Places of Worship listed in the Edinburgh Yellow Pages telephone directory.

The resulting work, entitled The Lamp of Sacrifice, was said to provide a snapshot of Scotland through its places of religious meeting, including churches, cathedrals, synagogues, mosques, Salvation Army halls and temples.

His most recent work includes film of the holy sites of different religious faiths in Jerusalem.

Full story at BBC Scotland News.