A highlight of the Centre’s exhibition programme, the Christmas Exhibition showcases the volume and diversity of creative work being produced in Orkney.
GENERATION AFTER GENERATION is the result of a nine month project undertaken by the Pier Arts Centre’s Piergroup to engage with the Glasgow 2014 cultural programme GENERATION – 25 years of Scottish contemporary art.
This exhibition draws on works from the Pier Arts Centre’s permanent collection to present a series of creative rooms that explore the artist’s relationship with the key elements of colour, light and nature and highlights the distinctiveness of Orkney as a place of inspiration and creative innovation
A publishing project curated by Tracy Mackenna & Edwin Janssen. Artists' posters, multiples and books including works published by Hansel Cooperative and Brae Editions.
Orcadia & Other Stories is a major exhibition of work by Zoë Walker & Neil Bromwich spanning more than 15 years. The exhibition aims to raise relevant and challenging questions about cultural identity and change at a time of development and opportunity across Scotland.
A stunning collection of photographs capturing experiences and relationships over a long life will be on show. Neat is a champion of the marginalized – Scottish Travelling People, Gaelic bards, salmon-netters, crofters, bee-keepers, horse breeders, Andalucian villagers, poets and artists.
Living Colour brings together a group of artist’s films, created between 1926 and the present day, that share a common interest in the potential of the moving image to capture and convey abstract form and colour.
Katy Dove, Oskar Fischinger, Ian Helliwell, Len Lye, Norman McLaren, Simon Payne, Lis Rhodes and Margaret Tait.
An exhibition of pupils artwork made in response to the Pier Arts Centre Collection. The artwork for this display has been made by pupils from Stromness Primary, including the nursery and pre-school classes.
The exhibition Element comprises work produced by students studying on Edinburgh College of Art's innovative post-graduate MFA programme Art, Space, Nature. Element reflects the individual and multiple readings and interpretations experienced by the artists.
A new display celebrating the recent additions to the Collection including works by Turner Prize winners from Scotland, Martin Boyce and Douglas Gordon as well as works by Scandinavian artists Camilla Løw and Olafur Eliasson.
An exhibition showing work by Orkney College UHI’s Fine Art Textiles third year undergraduates will open on Saturday 25 January at the Pier Arts Centre. The exhibition titled Progression provides a glimpse into the development of the student’s ideas throughout the year.
