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951 Mike Stoane Lighting Track Type X fittings using the Xicato XSM 3000K 2000lm module were supplied to National Galleries of Scotland for the renovation project. Due to increases in technology from the time the tender was won to installation, a 20% surplus was achieved. This surplus can now be used for other galleries in the portfolio.


Of the National Galleries Scotland portfolio, the Portrait Gallery was always something of the shy, retiring type compared to its grander National Gallery and Modern Art siblings, also housed in Edinburgh. The Scot- tish National Gallery, sitting proudly on The Mound in the centre of the Scottish capital, is one of Scotland’s top free visitor attrac- tions and Edinburgh’s second most-visited attraction after the Castle. The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art is set in its own beautiful parkland and features works by Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Andy Warhol and Lucian Freud. By contrast, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery has, since opening its doors in 1889 on Edinburgh’s Queen Street, lived a rather sheltered and schizophrenic life, despite its grand, neo- gothic appearance as originally designed by architect Sir Robert Rowand Anderson. James Holloway CBE, director of the Gal- lery, explains: “The building has suffered from benign neglect over the last 100 years. One of the reasons is that it was shared be- tween the Portrait Gallery and the Museum of Antiquities. Bit by bit we were allowed some of Antiquities’ space but we’ve never really had the budget or the will to reconfigure it because we always knew that at some stage we would be thoroughly refurbishing the building.” This led to the Portrait Gallery being labeled as a ‘hidden gem’ by those in the know but, all too often, it was overlooked by the less initiated in favour of its more glamorous kin. Not any more. Now the Gallery’s light is well and truly out from under the bushel thanks to a remarkable transformation by Glasgow-based architects Page \ Park and an all-LED gallery lighting scheme, believed to be the first of its kind, designed by Edinburgh-based Gavin Fraser of FOTO-MA, using Mike Stoane Lighting track fittings equipped with Xicato modules. Holloway goes on: “There were some very inadequate and odd spaces with false ceil- ings and lighting that wasn’t fit for purpose so when we had the chance to take over the whole building, around four years ago, that gave us the opportunity to completely refurbish including a new lighting system.” Gavin Fraser recalls the state of the build- ing at the beginning of the process. “At the beginning it was like two buildings in one with the Portrait Gallery on one side


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