This week's @artukdotorg #OnlineArtExchange is about Murals to celebrate Art UK's murals digitisation project
Not strictly speaking a mural, but The Bookseller of Stromness by Calum Morrison (b.1956)
at the Stromness Library is a large scale painting capturing a unique piece of social history
Through Their Eyes -The Pier Arts Centre Collection and the unfolding Asprey gift
highlights recently acquired contemporary works of art gifted by publisher, Arts Patron and collector Charles Asprey acquired through the Cultural Gifts Scheme, administered by Arts Council England @aceagrams
Today, on International Museum Day, when better to celebrate local museums.
Spending a day in Stromness, with the Pier Arts Centre at one end of the historic town and @stromnessmuseum at the other, plus lots of independent shops and businesses selling everything from Jewellery to local eggs
This week's @artukdotorg #OnlineArtExchange is all about Wallpaper for 'The Art of Wallpaper: Morris & Co' at Watts Gallery @wattsgallery
A visit to @jupiter.artland to see A Forest by Jim Lambie (b.1964) is well worth it!
Today we are celebrating Bees and insects for World Bee Day in @artukdotorg #OnlineArtExchange
Enjoy: Moths and Men with Hay, August by Mary Newcomb (1922–2008) from the collection at Norfolk Museums Service @norfolkmuseumservicedesign
OPENING TOMORROW:
Tracing the Natural World brings together Orkney and Vietnam through film, sound, and sensory perception, exploring how place is experienced through everyday life.
16 May-13 June
Join Louise Barrington at the Pier Arts Centre to learn more about the project:
Sat 16 May 2:30-4:30
This week @artukdotorg #OnlineArtExchange is all about Myths and Legends for 'Cornish Myths & Legends' at Cornwall Museum & Art Gallery @cornwall_museum
Sails in St Magnus: Pilgrimage of Earl Rognvald I – 'Fifteen keels laid in Norway for Jerusalem-farers' by Erlend Brown from Orkney Museum
OPEN TODAY (Sun 24 May) 10:30am-4pm. Admission Free
On display: Through Their Eyes-The Pier Arts Centre Collection and the unfolding Asprey gift highlights works of art gifted by publisher and Arts Patron Charles Asprey acquired through the Cultural Gifts Scheme administered by Arts Council England
Australia based artist James Geurts has been in Orkney this week drawing and documenting a temporary sculpture 'Time Zone Zero' in juxtaposition with the Stones of Stenness at dusk.
We were delighted to join him at the Stones of Stenness as he aligned his sculpture with the neolithic monuments
Tracing the Natural World is a display that brings together Orkney and Vietnam through film, sound, and sensory perception, exploring how place is experienced through everyday life on display until 13 June 2026
Tracing the Natural World is supported by the @britisharts #ConnectionsThroughCulture
