The Pier Arts Centre is open all year

Summer 2026 Opening Times
Monday-Saturday 10:30am-5pm

Admission Free

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 >

OPEN CALL
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST RESIDENCY

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: Megumi Barrington Uenoyama Wave Lobster/Nami Lobster © the artist

Erlend Brown 1947-2022 obituary by Bryce Wilson
Featured
Permanent Collection
Aug 20
Permanent Collection
Through Their Eyes - The Pier Arts Centre Collection and the unfolding Asprey gift
May 2
Through Their Eyes - The Pier Arts Centre Collection and the unfolding Asprey gift
When you’re tired of the mountains and the rivers and the trees... Drawings by Marian Ashburn
Jun 19
When you’re tired of the mountains and the rivers and the trees... Drawings by Marian Ashburn
Erin McQuarrie - The Scale of Things
Jun 19
Erin McQuarrie - The Scale of Things
Soulisquoy Printmakers - New Prints
Jun 19
Soulisquoy Printmakers - New Prints

Programme

Featured
Stromness Shopping Week Pavement Artist Competition
Jul 23
Stromness Shopping Week Pavement Artist Competition
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Blogs >

Read Orkney Artist Samantha Clark’s recent blogs about her residency in Japan here

We are delighted to be supporting Edinburgh based Ella Williams as she spends a month at Linkshouse - Orkney Arts Residency in Birsay as part of the @royal_scottish_academy Residencies for Scotland programme, Supported by the RSA W and Jay Gordon-Smith Bequest. Ella's practice explores how experiences of place can be translated into layered compositions. During her residency in Orkney, she has been developing a sequence of paintings that respond to the islands’ landscape, archaeology and storytelling traditions. #PierArtsCentre #Linkshouse
Today, @artukdotorg #OnlineArtExchange is celebrating Summer We hope you enjoy this glorious painting: Summer, 1928 by Winifred Nicholson (1893–1981) from the collection at Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum @leamspaartgallery