Welcome to the website for the National Collecting Scheme for Scotland
Voewood 1999
Roger Ackling (born 1947, Isleworth, England, UK)
The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney
Function Suite 2005
Claire Barclay (born 1968, Paisley, Scotland, UK)
Paisley Museum and Art Gallery
Waldella, Dundee 2009
David Batchelor (born 1955, Dundee, Scotland, UK)
McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum
This is How We Walk on the Moon 2007
Johanna Billing (born 1973, Jönköping, Sweden)
Edinburgh City Art Centre
Villa Savoye 1997
Nathan Coley (born 1967, Glasgow, Scotland, UK)
Edinburgh City Art Centre
Gralloch 2007
Henry Coombes (born 1977, London, England, UK)
Aberdeen Museums and Art Gallery Collections
The Colour Spectrum Series 2005
Olafur Eliasson (born 1967, Copenhagen, Denmark)
The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney
Nancy 2006
Graham Fagen (born 1966, Glasgow, Scotland, UK)
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
another unsent letter. then another. and another. and yet another. 2007
Douglas Gordon (born 1966, Glasgow, Scotland, UK)
The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney
Pandora's Ball 2008
Torsten Lauschmann (born 1970, Bad Soden, Germany)
Aberdeen Museums and Art Gallery Collections
4+4 2005
Camilla Løw (born 1976, Oslo, Norway)
The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney
5000 map pins on corkboard to create a drawing - 'Gone Fishing' 2002
Raúl Ortega Ayala (born 1973, Mexico City, Mexico)
Paisley Museum and Art Gallery
2008
Lucy Skaer (born 1975, Cambridge, England, UK)
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery
Bird Mask II 2006
John Stezaker (born 1949, Worcester, England, UK)
McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum
Tomatoes 2003
Wolfgang Tillmans (born 1968, Remscheid, Germany)
McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum
Habitat 2004
Gavin Turk (born 1967, Guildford, England, UK)
Aberdeen Museums and Art Gallery Collections
The National Collecting Scheme Scotland [NCSS] is an initiative of the Scottish Arts Council that supports seven geographically dispersed and locally distinct museums and galleries in Scotland to acquire and present challenging contemporary art.
This website gives the wider public the opportunity to learn more about the initiative, its history, its museum partners, its scope and ambitions, its most recent developments and, vitally, the important array of contemporary acquisitions it has supported over eight years.
Included here, for the first time, is a searchable database of all the contemporary acquisitions that have been developed and supported through the NCSS. Hosted by the University of Glasgow's Arts Server, the database offers a single portal through which the wider public can begin to access and navigate the sheer variety of contemporary artworks held across a range of local museums and galleries in Scotland.
In Aberdeen, you will find works by artists such as Gavin Turk, Tracey Emin, Henry Coombes and Torsten Lauschmann; in Orkney, works by Douglas Gordon, Olafur Eliasson, Roger Ackling and Camilla Løw; and, in Dundee, excellent representative pieces by John Stezaker, Wolfgang Tillmans, and David Batchelor.
Key installations by Nathan Coley, Johanna Billing and Graham Fagen are to be found in Edinburgh (City Art Centre), and by Lucy Skaer in Glasgow (Hunterian Art Gallery). And in Paisley, well-selected groups of works by highly-regarded Glasgow-based artist Claire Barclay and by Mexican artist Raul Ortega respectively.
The Scottish Arts Council and the History of Art department, University of Glasgow would like to thank its museum partners and the artists, along with their galleries and representatives, for their assistance in the development of this website.
