Curatorial tour with Jenny Brownrigg (The Glasgow School of Art) and Andrew Parkinson (the Pier Arts Centre).

Workshop in Hoy, led by Orkney artist Sarah Wylie, and Bet Low – An Island on Your Doorstep Curators Jenny Brownrigg (The Glasgow School of Art) and Andrew Parkinson (Pier Arts Centre).

Piergroup making session led by Orkney Artist Cassia Dodman

Talk on ‘Early Women Doctors in Orkney’ by the Orkney Women Doctors Research Group

Piergroup session with Orkney Artists Kerrianne Flett and Frances Pelly

This online event offers island-based artists the opportunity to chat to, and share work with, other artists and makers across the Hebrides, Shetland and Orkney.

Join us for the first Piergroup session of 2025

Curatorial tour with Jenny Brownrigg (The Glasgow School of Art) and Andrew Parkinson (the Pier Arts Centre).

Curators tour at Reid Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art

Piergroup Festive Social Evening

Festive Fun Family art and craft activities

Sound and 16mm film workshop

Piergroup making session

Informal 'Meet the Artist' event with Orcadian photographer Sarah Wylie

Piergroup session focusing on artist sketchbooks

In-depth look into the current collection display Akin - Old and New Works from the Pier Arts Centre Collection

Orkney Arts Society talk by Victoria Crowe, one of Scotland’s leading painters

illustrated talk and tour

Fiddle and Latin percussion duo Catriona Price & Joni Strugo present an intimate evening of intercultural music from around the world.

Annual Pavement Artist Competition

To celebrate PRIDE MONTH 2024 the Pier Arts Centre is collaborating with Soulisquoy Printmakers on a series of LGBTQ+ friendly workshops led by Diana Leslie aimed at Young People 16-24 years

Orcadian artist Leah Moodie will give an informal tour of her current exhibition

Talk by exhibition Curator Clare Froy (Welsby)

This series of 13 Films Shorts highlights how the artists have used moving image to reflect their environment.