The Scottish poet, artist and gardener Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) lived in a number of rural locations around Scotland. For a few months in 1959 Finlay lived and worked in the Sourin district of Rousay, and although he only returned to Orkney once more, the island and its maritime setting continued to be threaded through many of his sculptural and published works.

This exhibition brings together a selection of early poems and publications alongside prints from the 1960s produced in collaboration with fellow artists, such as John Furnival and Alistair Cant. The exhibition also includes a photograph by one of Finlay’s long-term collaborators, photographer Robin Gillanders, of the monumental sculpture Gods of the Earth/ Gods of the Sea. Created in collaboration with stone-carver Nicholas Sloan, the sculpture was installed, under Finlay’s guidance, at a location near Blossom Quarry in Rousay in 2005, shortly before the artist’s death.