AS the first woman to become head of the National Galleries of Scotland, Anne Lyden is making history.
She is also a Scot – having come “all the way” from Clydebank to Edinburgh via 18 years at the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles where she rose to the role of associate curator.
Going to Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow on a school trip when she was little is one of Lyden’s earliest memories and began her passion for museums and galleries. She followed her undergraduate degree with a Masters in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester, then applied for an internship at the Getty Museum where she wanted to work with its internationally important photographic collection.
She is well aware of the significance of her appointment as the first female director at the National Galleries of Scotland which encompass Edinburgh’s major public galleries – National, Portrait and Modern. “We need to understand that there are other histories, other stories and other viewpoints within the art we hold and that it is not just something that can be seen from one particular viewpoint that may privilege a white perspective. There is a lot of nuance and complex history that we should not be afraid to research and share with our audiences.
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