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Sunday 10.30am-3.30pm

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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.

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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
COMING NEXT: Buss o Gress / Tuft of Grass
Aug 9
COMING NEXT: Buss o Gress / Tuft of Grass
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SUNLIGHT:Roger Ackling Curatorial Tour
Aug 23
SUNLIGHT:Roger Ackling Curatorial Tour
When the Grass Dances
Sep 5
When the Grass Dances

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

Congratulations to @stromnessgolf Club on the Centenary of opening their current course. Our exhibition A Great Stromnessian - The Art of Provost George ‘Doddy’ S Robertson celebrates the colourful life of George ‘Doddy’ S Robertson (1887 – 1981), who co-founded the Course at Ness, where he played regularly well into his 90s. On display until Saturday (2 August) Image: Ian MacInnes painting of George S. Robertson, Provost of Stromness (1946–1953) © the artist's estate. Image credit: @stromnessmuseum
This week our #WednesdayWorkoftheWeek is Barbara Hepworth's Large and Small Form, 1934 which is currently on display in Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland as part of their exhibition Kandinsky, Picasso, Miró et al. #PierArtsCentre #Hepworth #international