Highlights include Jim
Lambie, who shows a psychedelic forest of multicoloured ladders at Edinburgh's Fruitmarket
Gallery, and Alison Watt, whose moody large - scale paintings of close - up draperies can be
seen at Perth Art
Gallery.
The other three nominees announced today are Darren Almond, who displayed bus stops he
saw outside the Auschwitz Museum in Poland in a
gallery in Berlin; Glasgow - born Jim
Lambie, who is known for his psychedelic floor pieces, and Simon Starling, who rode a moped across the desert in Andalucia which generated power using only compressed bottled hydrogen and oxygen from the desert air.