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Description: | The Accredited Art Collection of the University of Stirling is a varied one, comprising of over 500 works including paintings, prints, sketches, sculpture and silver.
The tradition of collecting art goes back to the founding of the University in 1967 when Professor Tom Cottrell was the first Principal. Although a scientist by training, he came from an artistic background and had very clear ideas about art and its place in society. He felt that art should be part of the everyday experience at the University and it is this philosophy that has driven and inspired the University to keep on collecting and showing exciting art to the public ever since.
In the early days site specific works were commissioned and an excellent example of this is the wall mounted steel sculptural panel by Mary Martin which still hangs in the Pathfoot building. Much of the collection was purchased in the late Sixties and the Seventies and there is a fine collection of works from that period with several examples of the work of Patrick Heron, Terry Frost and Graham Sutherland.
The University has received two large and valuable gifts during the Collection's history. The first was a gift of fourteen oil paintings by the Scottish Colourist painter J.D. Fergusson, which was presented to Stirling by the artist's widow Margaret Morris in 1968; the second was a gift of fifteen paintings and three sculptures given to the University in 1997 as part of the Scottish Arts Council Bequest.
In the early years of the Art Collection works were purchased by nationally and internationally known artists. Since the 1990s, however, collecting policy has been to focus on collecting works of Scottish contemporary art.
One of the Art Collection’s special areas of collecting interest is in the field of outdoor sited sculpture. | Subjects: | Fine Art | Source: | University of Stirling | Address: | University of Stirling
Stirling,
FK9 4LA | Identifier: | STIAC-CLD.1 | Language: | en-GB |
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