Our new Collection exhibition opens this weekend and explores the ways the Collection has developed through a sequence of specially curated rooms that highlight collecting themes and variations. Included is our #WednesdayWorkoftheWeek (Maquette I) 1956 by Barbara Hepworth

Early next year, we will be hosting our next exhibition celebrating Orkney's recent art graduates. If you went to school in Orkney or attended UHI Orkney, graduating in 2024-25 with any art related degree, or you have any questions, please get in touch by emailing [email protected]

Did you know this week is @mathsweek.scot We have created a series of maths related activities that focus on our collection for you to download and enjoy over the week: www.pierartscentre.com/maths-week #MathsWeekScotland

Today we celebrate the birthday of Douglas Gordon (b. 1966) with another unsent letter. then another. and another. and yet another. 2007 from our collection #PierArtsCentre #Stromness

Portals: new work by Adela Kałuzińska opens at the Pier Arts Centre next weekend. Join Adela for an informal look around the exhibition on Saturday 27 September, 3-4pm. Admission is free and no booking necessary. #PierArtsCentre

The next Even Here Even Now (EHEN) gathering for Orkney’s Creative community takes place at the Pier Arts Centre, Saturday (20 Sept), 2-4pm Emma Gee, Arts Officer from Orkney Islands Council will give a talk about her role and join in an informal dialogue Admission is free. #evenhereevennow

This week @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is looking at Impressive buildings with Liverpool Cathedral @livcathedral Orkney's own Impressive St Magnus Cathedral has many exceptional features including this Font created by Alan Stout in 1987

This week our #WednesdayWorkoftheWeek is Voewood, 2004 by Roger Ackling. SUNLIGHT: Roger Ackling is on display at the Pier Arts Centre until 1 November 2025 Open Tuesday-Saturday 10:30am-5pm. Admission is Free #PierArtsCentre

COMING NEXT: Portals: new work by Adela Kałuzińska 27 September-8 November Portals is the first solo exhibition by Glasgow-based artist Adela Kałuzińska, who’s work explores the relationship between time, memory, landscape and cultural identity. Adela Kałuzińska High Tide, 2025 © the artist

Next week is the last chance to see our current exhibition Buss o Gress / Tuft of Grass - on display until 20 Sept. Orkney photographer Rebecca Marr and Scottish poet Valerie Gillies have been exploring grasses over many years, and the work in this exhibition is part of their conversation

Tomorrow (13 Sept) 2-4pm is the next Even Here Even Now meet-up at the Pier Arts Centre. Orkney Creatives are invited to come and learn more about EHEN a Scottish inter-island network group, and join in the dialogue initiated by our August 16th gathering. Free. Book at [email protected]

Next week is The Art History Festival - an annual event run by the @forarthistory.org.uk celebrating art, design & architecture The 2025 theme is Art & Nature & includes our exhibition Buss o Gress/Tuft of Grass in the programme festival.forarthistory.org.uk/event/buss-o... #ArtHistoryFestival2025

This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is celebrating all things ‘Victorian’ for Victorian Treasures from Cecil French and Scott Thomas Buckle at Leighton House & Sambourne House Here's Deerness, Mull Head, Orkney 1895 by Robert Gallon (1845–1925) from the Orkney Museum

This week our #WednesdayWorkoftheWeek is Sweet May, 2023 by Orkney artist Brandon Logan, which was presented to the Pier Arts Centre by the Contemporary Art Society 2023/4 You can see his exhibition Willow Trust Illusion at Sid Motion Gallery until 1 November 2025

Annual Open Exhibition will open on Sat 22 Nov 2025 and will run until Christmas Eve. The exhibition is supported by NordDallas Insurance Brokers Orkney based artists and makers can enter up to 2 works. Deadline for submissions is 5pm Sat 8 Nov Full details at www.pierartscentre.com

This week is the last chance to see Dreams of the everyday: paintings by Winifred Nicholson & Andrew Cranston at the Pier Arts Centre. The exhibition will be on display at The Holburne Museum, Bath from 3 October 2025-11 January 2026 .

Today (7 September 10:30am-3:30pm) is our last Sunday opening for the 2025 season Admission is Free Image: Dreams of the everyday: paintings by Winifred Nicholson & Andrew Cranston. On display until 13 September. #PierArtsCentre

The next Even Here Even Now meet-up with Orkney artist advocates Frances Pelly & Kerrianne Flett is next Sat (13 Sept) 2-4pm at the Pier Arts Centre Orkney based creatives are invited to come along to this informal get together #evenhereevennow

CALLING ORKNEY'S RECENT ARTS GRADUATES We looking for Orkney’s recent art graduates to get in touch if they would like to be part of the forthcoming exhibition showcasing the work of emerging artists. Get in touch by emailing [email protected] or phone 850209 #PierArtsCentre

Buss o Gress / Tuft of Grass - Meet the Artists TODAY (Thursday 4 September) 3-4pm Admission Free. No booking necessary Join Orkney photographer Rebecca Marr and Scottish poet Valerie Gillies, who have spent years looking at grasses, each using their own languages of photography and poetry

This week @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is celebrating Ceramics for Mella Shaw: Sounding Line at McManus Galleries Dundee We love and show and end, 2020 by Edmund de Waal (b.1964) from the collection Pallant House Gallery

Our #WednesdayWorkoftheWeek is Heather Coast 1963 by Peter Lanyon Head over to our Instagram to read how Margaret Gardiner (1904-2005) cane to acquire the painting. #PierArtsCentre

SUNLIGHT: Roger Ackling is on display at until 1 Nov 2025 Ackling visited Orkney in the summer of 2008, collecting driftwood on various beaches around the county and transforming it into beautiful sculptural objects. Admission free. Open Mon-Sat 10.30am-5pm Sun 10.30am-3.30pm #PierArtsCentre

Buss o Gress / Tuft of Grass - Meet the Artists Thursday 4 Sept 3-4pm Free. No booking necessary Join Orkney photographer Rebecca Marr and Scottish poet Valerie Gillies, who have spent years looking at grasses, each using their own languages of photography and poetry as an exchange #PierArtsCentre

Join Valerie Gillies and Rebecca Marr, for an evening of poems, images and natural history readings, reflecting their exhibition Buss o Gress/Tuft of Grass, on Friday 5 September 6.30-7.30pm. Tickets available through the Orkney International Science Festival website oisf.org/fest-event/w...

Today (Sat 30 Aug) is the last chance to see Island Voices - prints by members of Soulisquoy Printmakers Open 10:30-5. Admission Free Image: Megumi Barrington Uenoyama, Orkney Pipe Bands © the artist #PierArtsCentre #Soulisquoy #Printmaking

Our current exhibition Buss o Gress / Tuft of Grass includes work by Orkney photographer Rebecca Marr and Scottish poet Valerie Gillies Join Valerie and Rebecca for an informal 'Meet the Artists' event next Thursday (4 September) 3-4pm. Admission is free and no booking necessary. #PierArtsCentre

This week @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is all about Time for ‘Tony Foster: Exploring Time’ at Cornwall Museum Make your own Sundial by Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006) is in the collection at Aberdeen Art Gallery

Alfred Wallis (1855-1942) was born 170 years ago this month. We are celebrating the artist with our #WednesdayWorkoftheWeek Headland with two three-masters from our Collection #PierArtsCentre #AlfredWallis

Ever wished you had time and space to dedicate to your creative practice? There is currently availability at Linkshouse for self funded residencies in October and November 2025. For information please visit www.pierartscentre.com/linkshouseor... or email [email protected]

Our current exhibition - Dreams of the everyday: paintings by Winifred Nicholson & Andrew Cranston is on display until 13 September Click here to listen to Andrew Cranston and Richard Ingleby as they walk around the exhibition and reflect on the work www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKLM...

Next Sunday join Frances for a hands on session where she will show the process of weaving crosses from grasses. Where: The Pier Arts Centre When: Sunday 31 August 2025, 1:30-3:30pm Cost: £10 Spaces are limited and booking is essential. Tel: 01856 850209 Email: [email protected]

Today we celebrate the birth of Keith Vaughan (1912-77) with Still Life with Pears 1951 from our Collection #PierArtsCentre

Join Frances Pelly for a hands on session weaving crosses from grasses. Where: The Pier Arts Centre When: Sunday 31 August 2025, 1:30-3:30pm Cost: £10 Spaces are limited and booking is essential. Tel: 01856 850209 Email: [email protected] #PierArtsCentre

SUNLIGHT: Roger Ackling is on display at the Pier Arts Centre until 1 Nov 2025 Join Curator Amanda Geitner & Orkney artist Brandon Logan at 3pm TOMORROW (Sat 23 Aug) for an informal tour and discussion. Admission is free. All Artworks © Estate of the Artist / Courtesy @Annely Juda Fine Art

This week @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is looking at portraits of artists and patrons for ‘Turner 250: The Artist and his early Patron’ at Tabley House 1933 (study of a head) by Ben Nicholson from the collection at Falmouth Arts gallery is a tender portrait of Hepworth & Nicholson

This week's #WednesdayWorkoftheWeek is Group III (Evocation) by Barbara Hepworth © Bowness #PierArtsCentre #BarbaraHepworth

We're delighted to support members of Soulisquoy Printmakers by selling a selection of their prints in our shop. The original artwork for this print was created by Evie Hone, using a ‘scraper’ board type technique – ‘drawing’ through a layer of dark paint to reveal bright colour beneath.

Today we celebrate the birth of Alfred Wallis (1855-1942) Many of the paintings by Wallis in our Collection are double sided. Yacht, pink and green (recto) and St Ives harbour and Godrevy (verso) c1934-8, is seen here in our exhibition wavespeech - Edmund de Waal & David Ward with both sides visible

Buss o Gress / Tuft of Grass is on display until 20 September 2025 Orkney photographer Rebecca Marr and Scottish poet Valerie Gillies have spent years among the grasses, each using their own languages of photography and poetry as an exchange. Open Mon-Sat 10:30-5/Sun 10:30-3:30. Admission Free

Join Curator Amanda Geitner and Orkney artist Brandon Logan for an informal exhibition tour and conversation about SUNLIGHT: Roger Ackling on Saturday 23 August, 3pm. Admission free and no booking required #PierArtsCentre

Join Even Here Even Now Orkney artist advocates Frances Pelly and Kerrianne Flett tomorrow at an informal get together to discuss the future of Orkney's creative community Where: The Pier Arts Centre, Stromness When: Saturday 16 August 2-4pm Who: All Orkney based creative people #evenhereevennow

This week @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is celebrating Welsh art Margaret Davies (1884-1963) was an artist & art collector much like Pier Arts Centre founder Margaret Gardiner (1904-2005). Brown Harbour, 1952 by Terry Frost (1915–2003) was the last work she purchased.

For our #WednesdayWorkoftheWeek we continue to celebrate the work of Roger Ackling (1947-2014) with Voewood 1999 sunlight on wood © Estate of the Artist / Courtesy Annely Juda Fine Art Throughout the summer, we are open 10:30am-5pm Mon-Sat, 10:30am-3:30pm Sun. Admission free #PierArtsCentre

In case you didn't get a chance during Orkney Island Games 2025 to see Island Voices - prints by members of Soulisquoy Printmakers that were included in a pocket book given to participating athletes fear not...It will be on display at the Pier Arts Centre for a few weeks yet. #OrkneyIslandGames

Today we celebrate the birth of Roger Ackling (1947-2014) SUNLIGHT: Roger Ackling is on display at the Pier Arts Centre until 1 November 2025 Open 10:30am-5pm Mon-Sat, 10:30am-3:30pm Sun. Admission free All Artworks © Estate of the Artist / Courtesy Annely Juda Fine Art #PierArtsCentre

Buss o Gress/Tuft of Grass is on display until 20 Sept 2025 Join Valerie Gillies and Rebecca Marr, for an evening of poems, images and natural history readings on Friday 5 September 6.30-7.30pm. Tickets available through the Orkney International Science Festival website oisf.org/fest-event/w...

OPENING TODAY: Buss o Gress/Tuft of Grass 9 Aug-20 Sept Orkney photographer Rebecca Marr & Scottish poet Valerie Gillies have spent years among the grasses, gaining respect for them through their writing and art, each using their own languages of photography and poetry as an exchange

There is availability at Linkshouse – Orkney Arts Residency in Birsay for self funded residencies in October & November 2025 Visit www.pierartscentre.com/linkshouseor... or email [email protected] for info Image: Victoria Crowe, Low Winter Sun, Links House Window, 2023 © the artist

This week @artukdotorg.bsky.social are looking at Religious art for Fragments of Devotion: A Sensory History of Illuminated Manuscript Cuttings’ at Barber Institute for the #OnlineArtExchange Lots to see in Entrance for a Red Temple No. 1, 1960 by Alan Davie (1920–2014) from @tate.bsky.social