Enter the archive: research report
Gow, Alexandra and Fox, Anna (2023) Enter the archive: research report. Project Report. National Galleries Scotland/University for the Creative Arts. (Unpublished)
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The purpose of this report is to evaluate the status of the photographic archive at National Galleries Scotland (NGS) in relation to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and develop knowledge surrounding the stories of diverse communities within the NGS collection, with an emphasis on the lives of women and non-binary people. This research will support NGS in developing an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) grant application, in collaboration with Fast Forward: Women in Photography. The following findings and recommendations will help to inform the foundation and objectives of this shared funding bid, which will ultimately aim to develop inclusive collecting practices and policy for photographic archives in Scotland. The bilateral concerns of this report, in respect to these desired outcomes, are to summarise the Migration Stories (2011-13) exhibition programme and to analyse the limitations of the photographic archive more generally, forming Section 2 and Section 3 of this document, respectively. Section 4 will comprise recommendations formulated based on the findings of Sections 2 and 3. Research was carried out over a period of three months, from August to October 2023. It should be noted that, throughout this document, ‘the collection’ and ‘the archive’ will be used somewhat interchangeably to refer to the entirety of art-historically relevant objects held by NGS. However, there are (often blurred or overlapping) distinctions between ‘collection objects’ and ‘archival objects’ that may need to be drawn out and further defined as research for Enter the Archive progresses, as indicated in Section 3.3.
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