Christmas Open 2016
The Pier Arts Centre presents its annual celebration of art and craft by artists and makers who live and work in Orkney.
The Pier Arts Centre presents its annual celebration of art and craft by artists and makers who live and work in Orkney.
An exhibition curated by the Pier Arts Centre’s study group, an informal forum which provides an opportunity for extended and expanded discussion.
Neville Gabie has travelled the world creating films, drawings and performances that seek to get under the skin of places and communities. toandFRO brings together work in a variety of media that reflects time spent in locations as diverse as Antarctica, South Africa and Achiltibuie.
Exhibition celebrating the top 100 buildings from 1916-2015, nominated by the Scottish public.
A display of new and recent prints from Soulisquoy Printmakers focussing on design, innovation and architecture.
This exhibition brings together three leading European painters, whose work investigates the on-going relationships between contemporary painting and its modernist past
Exhibition showcasing the work of eight younger designers and makers all working in Orkney.
This exhibition investigates the varied responses to landscape within British Modernism of the mid-20th century.
A selection of artworks inspired by the wreck of the Norwegian trawler Norholmen, which grounded just below Stromness Kirk-yard in 1966.
The Collection, though small in scale, encompasses paintings and sculptures of exceptional quality by the key artists who were instrumental in importing and extending the ideas of the European avant-garde to Britain.
The grouping of works exemplifies the definition and refinement of that particularly British manifestation of Modernism and also contains fine examples of work by Patrick Heron, Sir Terry Frost, Margaret Mellis, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Alan Davie, Alfred Wallis and Naum Gabo among others.
More information about the Collection can be found on the Collection page.
An exhibition showing developmental work by Norna Sinclair, Orkney College`s Fine Art Textile third year undergraduate student.