We are currently accepting applications for for self funded full-house bookings for 2025 at Linkshouse – Orkney Arts Residency, Birsay. For further information and details on how to apply, please email linkshouse@pierartscentre.com or visit our website (Link in bio) #PierArtsCentre #Linkshouse #Birsay #Orkney #Artists

Monday 18 November at 5pm is the deadline to apply for the opportunity to JOIN OUR TEAM We are looking for a capable and flexible Capital Projects Manager to assist in the delivery of Orkney’s Creative Catalyst in Stromness and Birsay. For details visit our website (link in bio) or email vacancies@pierartscentre.com #PierArtsCentre #Joinourteam

This week our #WednesdayWorkoftheWeek is Terry Frost's Collage 1950 Pier Arts Centre's founder Margaret Gardiner (1904-2005) wrote of acquiring this work: "When the Institute of Contemporary Arts was in Dover Street and was small and lively and – in spite of its name – not at all institutional, it used sometimes to hold a fund-raising draw towards Christmas. This draw, like the caucus race in Alice in Wonderland, was one in which all won, everybody got a prize, and the prizes were works – a very mixed collection – given by artists and patrons. They were hung on the walls or displayed on the stands with the names of the artists – if they had been visible – covered, so that the fun of the thing was that the choices had to be made by eye and knowledge rather than by the prestige of a name. You bought a numbered ticket, the counterfoils were shuffled into a pail and, when the time allowed for inspection was over, the numbers were drawn and called and the owner of the number could choose the work he wanted and take it straight away off the wall or stand. There was nearly always a Picasso drawing that had been given to Roland Penrose for the occasion and this, since there was no mistaking its identity, was always the first off the wall. But as the walls were gradually stripped, like autumn trees, the more easily recognisable works disappeared and there were often unlikely discoveries of authorship. I was never lucky enough to have my number called early on but I did nevertheless capture one prize that I might have otherwise missed – a splendidly vigorous collage by Terry Frost." Image: © Estate of Terry Frost. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2024 #PierArtsCentre