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Foreword
by Erlend Brown
Ten
years in the life of an Art Gallery is not long. In Orkney
it seems even shorter when measured against the 4,000 years'
existence of Skara Brae or Maeshowe. But Arts organisations
can come and go fairly rapidly and 10 years of sustained activity
deserves celebration.
The
Centre would not have been established at all without the
vision of Margaret Gardiner. It is thanks to her that the
whole venture started. She explains this in her personal reminiscence
launching the Pier
Arts Centre.
Thanks
are also due to George Mackay Brown for his piece Orkney
and the Artist which puts the Pier Arts Centre in the
context of a longer development of artistic endeavour.
Bryce
Wilson, the present chairman of our Management Committee,
and a Trustee of the Centre, has written about the programme
Ten Years On. He is also to be thanked for selecting this
exhibition of artists living and working in Orkney.
Many
others have helped the Centre over the past decade, but our
main funding partners, the Scottish Arts Council and Occidental
North Sea Group require special thanks. Orkney Islands Council
have generously funded the publication of this catalogue.
The
exhibition includes work by two photographers, two sculptors
and five painters. All have contributed to exhibitions in
the past. That art matters in Orkney is due to their enthusiasm
and commitment.
The
exhibition is also organised as part of an exchange with Peacock/Artspace
in Aberdeen and the 369 Gallery in Edinburgh. The exhibition
will form part of a larger Orkney presence in the Bryggen
Museum in Bergen in November 1988.
Erlend
Brown
Curator
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