Victoria Crowe Low Winter Sun, Links House Window, 2023 oil on panel © the artist

In 2022 Victoria Crowe made two trips to Orkney as part of her Royal Scottish Academy/Pier Arts Centre Residency award. This exhibition will showcase some of the work Crowe made during her residency, as well as works created in response to her time spent in Orkney.

Looking at the contrasting light around the summer and winter solstice, the two most extreme periods of the celestial cycle, Crowe’s intention was to “explore the light on the land and its margins during the long twilights of the Orkney summer solstice, then return to experience the short days, long darkness and luminous skies of winter”.

Victoria Crowe is one of Scotland’s leading painters, known for her evocative landscapes and portraits of subjects including scientist Professor Peter Higgs, psychiatrist R.D. Laing and composer Thea Musgrave.

Victoria Crowe gave a talk at the Pier Arts Centre, in association with Orkney Arts Society about the exhibition. You can watch a film of the presentation below.

Listen to Victoria Crowe speak about her residency, and the works created in conversation with art historian, curator, and former Director-General of the National Galleries of Scotland Sir John Leighton here >