Library secures funding for Gunnie Moberg archive

A £78,500 award from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) is enabling the Orkney Library and Archive to purchase the archive of the Swedish photographer, painter and designer Gunnie Moberg (1941-2007).

Gunnie Moberg lived in Orkney for more than 30 years. The funding will secure the archive as a rich cultural resource for the benefit of current and future generations.

Her work records the historical, social and geographic landscapes of the islands of northern Scotland and beyond. In addition to a large volume of photojournalistic work, there were also numerous collaborations with significant writers and poets.

The HLF award will result in a two-year project involving the cataloguing, conservation and digitization of the archive, which includes Gunnie Moberg’s works, notebooks, photographic negatives and transparencies, reference prints, exhibition prints and manuscripts.