Orkney and the Artist - Pier Arts Centre 19 June - 6 November 2021

In 1988 the Stromness poet George Mackay Brown wrote the introduction to a book marking the first 10 years of the Pier Arts Centre. The essay – Orkney and the Artist – notes the significant role that art and artists have played in Orkney life and culture over the last few centuries.

Featuring work by Stanley Cursiter, Robert Rendall, Sylvia Wishart, Gunnie Moberg, Ian MacInnes and others, Orkney and the Artist aims to emphasise George Mackay Brown’s belief that art is critical to the health and well-being of any society.