The City honours Dame Elizabeth Blackadder

With a poem specially written and performed by the Edinburgh Makar, Ron Butlin, a speech by the President of the Royal Scottish Academy, Arthur Watson, and a speech by the Lord Provost the Rt Hon Donald Wilson, at an event attended by the great and the good at the City Chambers, Dame Elizabeth Blackadder was presented with the Edinburgh Award.

Dame Elizabeth, a Falkirk ‘Bairn’, lives in Edinburgh, having studied at Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh University. Last Christmas she painted the design for the First Minister’s Christmas card, but it is in recognition of all her former work that she has been given this honour, which includes a mould of her handprints in the quadrangle at the City Chambers.

The Award is to honour an outstanding individual who has made a positive impact on the city and gained national and international recognition for Edinburgh.

The award is a cup modelled on two loving cups in the collection at the City Chambers which the recipient gets to keep.