Casting a wide net: Remote volunteering, Scottish fishing and Scotland’s art

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Lunchtime talk by Dr Freya Spoor, Assistant Curator, Celebrating Scotland’s Art

In 2022 National Galleries of Scotland teamed up with Aberdeen Maritime Museum, Arbroath’s Signal Tower Museum and Angus Archive to host volunteers researching depictions of the Scottish fishing industry in art. Find out more about the network and this significant area of the national art collection.

 

Image: Inhabitants of Wick Waiting at the Harbour for Fishermen to Return, 1848, (detail) John Francis Campbell, National Galleries of Scotland