We’re proud to support the Mental Health Foundation Foundation this Mental Health Awareness Week – 13 to 19 May. Join in and help to create a world with good mental health for all.

We are open Tuesday -Saturday 10.30-5. Admission is Free

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To celebrate PRIDE MONTH we are collaborating with Soulisquoy Printmakers on a series of free LGBTQ+ friendly workshops led by Diana Leslie for Young People 16-24 years

Details here: buff.ly/3Wu5V4m

Creative Scotland @youthlinkscot Orkney Pride YouthLink Scotland Grant Programmes

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The Body Mends is Canadian artist Connie Michele Morey’s studio project exploring textile labour history of women an girls

We are delighted to have some of her work on display 14-22 May + a talk on Thur 16 May, 7.30pm. Free. No booking necessary.

Connie Michele Morey

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AinsleyPhillips Projects are seeking fellow Orkney based neuro-divergent creatives to work with on their Happy Places project. The final work will be shown at the Pier Arts Centre next year.

CLOSING DATE 31 MAY 2024

For full details visit buff.ly/3wtC2Xc

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Our current exhibition marking the recent acquisition by the Pier Arts Centre of Luke Fowler’s film, Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait 2022, with support from Art Fund is on display until 8 June.

Open Tues-Sat 10.30am-5pm. Free.

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We had a lovely visit from Professor Dame Mary Beard yesterday while she is in the county to open the Ness of Brodgar exhibition at Orkney Museum

Orkney Museums mary beard

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If you have visited the Pier Arts Centre recently, please take a moment to complete our online visitor survey buff.ly/4bsGPqy

This survey will help us learn more about our audiences and how we can give them the best possible experience

Thankyou

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This week Art UK #OnlineArtExchange is Celebrating National Gallery’s Bicentenary We love Sketch for 'Straw Weavers at Settignano' by Telemaco Signorini (1835–1901)
from their collection

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For the letter Q in our #WednesdayWorkoftheWeek here's Stanley Cursiter's Study for the Queen's visit, St Magnus Cathedral 1960

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Philip Hughes/Notebooks is on display until 18 May

Including drawings, paintings and notebooks the exhibition celebrates the launch of a new book by Thames & Hudson available in the gallery shop.

Open Tuesday-Saturday 10.30-5. Admission Free

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The spaces between ~ Richard Welsby Artist Photographer 1972-2022
Curated by Clare Froy (Welsby) on display until Saturday 8 June

Open Tuesday-Saturday 10.30am-5pm. Admission Free

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Linkshouse – Robin Noble author of Sagas of Salt and Stone: Orkney unwrapped visited today.
From 1980 onwards Robin operated Orkney Arts and Field Centre at Linkshouse playing host to resident artists such as Frances Walker, whose print can be seen in the picture
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Join us this weekend for Dancing on the Inside, a special screening of dance films celebrating the life and legacy of Scottish filmmaker Simon Fildes (1962-2021)

Frid 3rd May 6.30 – 7.30pm
Sat 4th May 12 – 1pm
Free. Book at buff.ly/3UFZo5f

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This week's theme for Art UK #OnlineArtExchange Women in Photography for the National Portrait Gallery exhibition: Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In
Seaweed Eating sheep, North Ronaldsay, Orkney (Orkney and Shetland)
by Gunnie Moberg from Scottish Parliament

Coming to the Pier Arts Centre this weekend – Dancing on the Inside – a programme of dance films celebrating Scottish filmmaker Simon Fildes (1962-2021)

Free, booking essential (see website)
Fri 3rd May 6.30pm
Sat 4th May 12noon

vimeo.com/686814738

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For our #WednesdayWorkoftheWeek this week we are looking at the letter P.

Here's Composition 1959 by Serge Poliakoff © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2024.

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This weekend we have a series of Screenings of Dancing on the Inside a programme of dance films celebrating the life & legacy of award-winning Scottish filmmaker Simon Fildes (1962-2021)
Fri 3rd 6.30pm
Sat 4th 12noon
To book visit bit.ly/4aG93hL

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Today we celebrate the birth of Roger Hilton (1911-75) with Brown, Yellow and Black c. 1958 from our Collection

© Estate of Roger Hilton. All rights reserved, DACS 2024

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Today we also celebrate the birth of F.E. McWilliam (1909-92) with The Orator 1955

© the estate of F.E. McWilliam

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We celebrate a second Collection artist's birth today - Italo Valenti (1912-95) Collage, 1962 © the artist's estate

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