Scottish National Portrait Gallery: Images offering a portrait of the nation during coronavirus features in new exhibition

Photographs from socially distanced garden visits, family Zoom calls and home-school activities are among the public submissions that will be shared in the show You Are Here 2020: Stories, Portraits, Visions.

A rotating selection from the public submissions, which number more than 200, will be displayed alongside five artworks from the national collection at the gallery in Edinburgh.

These include a selection of works by photographer Iain Stewart from his series Tender, for which he shadowed two Edinburgh GPs, a bronze bust of Scots Makar Jackie Kay and a bust of the pioneering surgeon Dr Elsie Inglis.

People across Scotland are invited to submit stories, poems, portraits and ideas about the future to the exhibition and all works shown will be shared on the National Galleries Scotland (NGS) website and social media channels.

Learning and engagement outreach officer Richie Cumming, who devised the display, said: "It has been humbling and a privilege to receive these submissions.

"The project has given participants the opportunity to share intimate and moving stories and portraits that, when taken together, create a powerful portrait of human experience.

"I know it has been cathartic for many people who have taken part and I hope these stories give visitors renewed perspectives on their experiences, too."

The other artworks from the national collection that feature in the exhibition include a video work featuring Mercury Prize-winning Edinburgh band Young Fathers titled Man Up.

Reporting from PA

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