This month we will be heading to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery for their new exhibition Counted: Scotland’s Census 2022. We will be joined by the curator of the show Louise Pearson. Louise is curator of photography at National Galleries of Scotland. She has previously worked for Royal Collection Trust and the National Library of Scotland. Louise is currently working on a collecting project funded through an Art Fund New Collecting Award based around Scotland’s 2022 census with the aim of diversifying the National Galleries collection.
In the year of Scotland’s Census, NGS are exploring who lives in Scotland today, who came before us and who will come after us. Inspired by the questions asked in the census, Counted: Scotland’s Census 2022 considers the complex notion of identity. How is this shaped by our religion, occupation, health, ethnicity?
New acquisitions by photographers working in Scotland today including Kieran Dodds, Arpita Shah and Danny North are presented alongside 19th-century photographs by Thomas Annan and Hill & Adamson, offering comparisons between past and present generations of Scots.
