Piergroup making session

Piergroup session focusing on artist sketchbooks

Are you interested in how we develop our collection and how you can contribute to the process? The evening will include several presentations, discussion and practical activity.

Find out more about the Pier Arts Centre‘s study trip to London in Summer 2022, to visit the British Museum and other galleries and museums in the city.

Piergroup/Pier Closer zoom event to hear from Ciara Courtney an MA student at Glasgow School of Art

Online Festive Making Session is an opportunity for Piergroup and PIER CLOSER members to come together, along with any friends who may also wish to join

This piergroup/PIER CLOSER session will take the form of a Festive Gathering to look around our Annual Christmas Open Exhibition.

Join us for evening with Hilary Grant and Kirsteen Stewart.

A workshop evening with James Mckenzie and Dan O'Dempsey who are currently based with the Pier Arts Centre as Royal Scottish Academy Residents.

To mark the 70th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights, the Pier Arts Centre is taking part in the Fly the Flag project. In this Piergroup/PIERCLOSER sessions, there will be an opportunity to help design a flag which the Pier Arts Centre will fly from the 24th to 30th June 2019 as an advocate for human rights

Piergroup session

A festive social PIER CLOSER/Piergroup gathering. All welcome

This Piergroup session is a collaboration between Piergroup and the nationwide youth project event ScotArt.

In this session PIER CLOSER will join with Piergroup to look at the W.S. Graham Centenary exhibition a poet among the painters in advance of it opening to the public on Saturday 22 September.

This Piergroup session will involve an activity inspired by Margaret Tait’s small water colour paintings and found objects

A discussion and planning session with  Issie Tovey our Young Person’s Programmer.

Piergroup summer social evening

2018 Year of Young People – how do you want to celebrate and make a contribution to 2018? How can the arts make a difference?

Find out about Piergroup and discuss future activities.

Find out what Piergroup did in June on a trip to Papa Westray with artist Saoirse Higgins and what might come next.
Find out what it’s like to be a young invigilator at the Scottish Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale.

Piergroup open evening with students from Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen including some practical art making activities, as well as an opportunity to find out more about the group and the projects that Piergroup initiates and develops with the gallery.

An introduction to the programme for 2015 and a presentation from artist David Ward and curator Mike Tooby on the forthcoming exhibition wavespeech.