Open Monday to Saturday 10.30am-5pm

Admission free

7 July-7 September 2025
open Sunday 10.30am-3.30pm

About Us

The Pier Arts Centre is an Art Gallery and Museum in Stromness, Orkney. Home to a permanent collection and year round exhibitions and events… Find out more >

red line drawings of different fish motifs assembling to represent a face, with a teal wood effect background

Soulisquoy Printmakers Commissioned Prints
As part of their 40 years activity, a series of limited-edition prints have been specially commissioned and printed by Soulisquoy Printmakers. Available to purchase at the gallery or online. Click here for details

Image: Colin Kirkpatrick Brodgar Reel 2023 © the artist

a person showing artworks to a group in a room with wooden cupboards

Read about our trip to the British Museum earlier this year with a group of young people from Orkney.

Join Josie Long as she journeys through the Pier Arts Centre in this Art Fund film.

Featured
Permanent Collection
Aug 20
Permanent Collection
Dreams of the everyday: paintings by Winifred Nicholson & Andrew Cranston
Jun 21
Dreams of the everyday: paintings by Winifred Nicholson & Andrew Cranston
A Great Stromnessian - The Art of Provost George ‘Doddy’ S Robertson
Jun 21
A Great Stromnessian - The Art of Provost George ‘Doddy’ S Robertson
Island Voices
Jun 27
Island Voices
SUNLIGHT: Roger Ackling
Jul 12
SUNLIGHT: Roger Ackling
Featured
El Guapo + Catriona Price performance
Jul 4
El Guapo + Catriona Price performance
Island Voices - Meet the artists
Jul 19
Island Voices - Meet the artists
Tomorrow (Friday 4 July) will be the last chance to see the two special collection displays at the Pier Arts Centre: Ian Hamilton Finlay and Orkney - A Centenary Celebration and Endings and Beginnings - The Pier Arts Centre Collection – Recent Acquisitions Coming Next: SUNLIGHT: Roger Ackling 12 July-1 November The Pier Arts Centre is currently open Monday-Saturday 10:30am-5pm. Admission is free #PierArtsCentre
This week @artukdotorg #OnlineArtExchange is all about smells in art for Scented Visions: Smell in Art 1850—1915 at @wattsgallery You can almost smell the flowers in Still Life by a Window by Winifred Nicholson (1893–1981) Currently on loan from @brighton_museums and included in our exhibition Dreams of the everyday: paintings by Winifred Nicholson & Andrew Cranston
This week our #WednesdayWorkoftheWeek is Catameringue by Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006) © By courtesy of the Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay There is still time to see our display celebrating the Centenary of the birth of the Scottish poet, artist and gardener Ian Hamilton Finlay. On display until Saturday 5 July. #PierArtsCentre #IanHamiltonFinlay