Dame Elizabeth Blackadder
- Submitted by: Meghan Gallacher, Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 August 2021
- Motion reference: S6M-00945
That the Parliament notes the sad passing of Dame Elizabeth Blackadder, one of Scotland’s greatest artists; further notes that Elizabeth, who was born in Falkirk, had a career spanning six decades during which she won numerous awards for her still life paintings and delicate pictures of flowers; acknowledges that Elizabeth was the first woman to become an academician of the Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal Scottish Academy, and she was honoured with an OBE in 1982, and made a Dame in 2003, and further acknowledges that, in 2001, Elizabeth was appointed as Her Majesty’s Painter and Limner in Scotland, the first woman to hold this role in its 400-year history.
Supported by:
Colin Beattie, Miles Briggs, Alexander Burnett, Stephanie Callaghan, Donald Cameron, Foysol Choudhury, Sharon Dowey, Annabelle Ewing, Russell Findlay, Murdo Fraser, Kenneth Gibson, Pam Gosal, Jamie Greene, Fiona Hyslop, Liam Kerr, Stephen Kerr, Bill Kidd, Monica Lennon, Dean Lockhart, Douglas Lumsden, Ruth Maguire, Stuart McMillan, Edward Mountain, Douglas Ross, Alexander Stewart, Sue Webber, Annie Wells, Tess White