The Hunterian at the University of Glasgow has been awarded £200,000 from the Art Fund’s Moving Image Fund, which helps museums build their collections of artists’ film and video.

The Moving Image Fund is specifically designed to help museums and galleries across the UK collect and share with audiences the work of contemporary artists working with digital media, video and film.

Stephen Deuchar, Art Fund Director, said: “Our Moving Image Fund is helping UK museums and galleries to acquire important works in film and video, giving more people access to this increasingly important medium. We thank the generous supporters who have made this possible, and look forward to seeing what The Hunterian acquires.”

Other organisations to benefit from the fund include Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, and the Whitworth, Manchester.

Transformative

Steph Scholten, Director of The Hunterian said: “The Hunterian is delighted to be among the organisations supported by the Moving Image Fund. We are extremely grateful to the Art Fund and its partners for this award which will allow us to expand our world-class collections and further deepen our engagement with contemporary art.”

Dr Dominic Paterson, Curator of Contemporary Art at The Hunterian said: “The support of the Moving Image Fund will be really transformative for The Hunterian’s ability to collect contemporary art and to share artworks of the highest quality with our audiences. The fact that we will also be able to commission a new moving image work in partnership with Film and Video Umbrella as part of this award makes it especially exciting. I’m so pleased to have been given this opportunity by Art Fund.”

The Hunterian is home to one of the most distinguished public art collections in Scotland. Although best known for its Whistler and Mackintosh collections, it has developed an important collection of works by leading contemporary artists including Lucy Skaer, Ilana Halperin, Mat Collishaw, Mark Dion and Christine Borland.

Works acquired to date through the Moving Image Fund include: Isaac Julien’s Ten Thousand Waves (2010) jointly acquired by Towner Art Gallery and the Whitworth and Omer Fast’s 5,000 Feet is Best (2011) jointly acquired by Towner Art Gallery and IWM.

First published: 12 December 2017

<< 2017 Nov - Dec


Find out more

  • Hunterian announcement
  • The Hunterian [archive]