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.
Tracing the Natural World is supported by the British Council’s Connections Through Culture programme and aims to connect Orkney and Vietnam through film, sound, and sensory perception, exploring how place is experienced through everyday life.
This exhibition explores the ways the Collection has developed through a sequence of specially curated rooms that highlight collecting themes and variations.
SUNLIGHT is the first survey of Roger Ackling (1947–2014), celebrating one of the most quietly influential British artists of the late twentieth century.
This series of prints has been created in response to an invitation to Soulisquoy Printmakers from Gabrielle Barnby, Orkney Island Games ‘Scriver’, to provide images for inclusion in a pocket book that would form part of the participating athletes ‘welcome pack’.
Dreams of the Everyday, is a new exhibition which brings together the paintings of Winifred Nicholson (1893–1981) and Andrew Cranston (b. 1969, Hawick, UK)
This exhibition brings together art and personal stories by a group of Ukrainian refugees resettling in Orkney embarked on a creative journey of healing and self-expression.
Exhibition showcases some of the exceptional photographs of island life, taken by Beatrice Garvie when she was doctor on North Ronaldsay, during the 1930s and ‘40s.
This exhibition brings together a selection of early poems and publications alongside prints from the 1960s produced by Ian Hamilton Finlay in collaboration with fellow artists, such as John Furnival and Alistair Cant
This exhibition marks the centenary of the birth of the Scottish artist Bet Low (1924-2007) and will be displayed in both Glasgow and Orkney through a collaboration between the Reid Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art and the Pier Arts Centre in Stromness, Orkney.
Peedie Pier – Primary and Junior Secondary School Artwork includes work made by some of Orkney’s youngest artists from primary and junior secondary schools throughout the county
Exhibition of new work by a group of students from from the Art, Science and Visual Thinking MFA course at Duncan of Jordanstone College of art & Design, Dundee
Exhibition showcasing some of the work Victoria Crowe made during her recent residency in Orkney, as well as works created in response to her time spent in Orkney.
Exhibition of new paintings by Glasgow based Orcadian artist Leah Moodie has been created in response to the artists feelings of homesickness for Orkney.
Exhibition celebrating the life and work of Sir William George Gillies RSA (1898-1973) with a collection of paintings, drawings and associated photographs, archives and objects from across his career.
A highlight of the Centre’s exhibition programme, the Christmas Exhibition showcases the volume and diversity of creative work being produced in Orkney.