This display, which ran throughout 2022, celebrated and shared recent and ongoing collaborative projects between the National Galleries of Scotland and partner organisations across the country. They included place-based initiatives with groups of young people in former mining towns, and life-affirming public art schemes in North Ayrshire.
The project looked at the various ways that people can engage with art to bring benefits to their health and wellbeing, and explored their sense of identity and belonging. Co-produced artworks and other forms of content were displayed alongside works from the Galleries’ permanent collection to amplify new voices and offer fresh views on contemporary Scotland.
You are Here is a regularly changing display. Below are articles relating to this and previous incarnations of the display.
In 1902, Ada Barclay presented a marble bust by William Brodie, of herself as a child, to the National Galleries of Scotland. Curator Liz Louis uses the trail left in historical census records and other documentation to find out more about her story.
The premise of the Life Hacks project was simple, make some life affirming artwork with young people in North Ayrshire.
Can visual art empower young people to have more say in their local towns? This young people’s outreach project in Cumnock, in the former mining area of East Ayrshire, set up a mini-art school to make this happen.
2020 Stories, Portraits, Visions, was an installation at the Scottish National Portait Gallery showing stories, portraits and ideas about the future submitted by the public alongside five artworks from the national collection.
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