Exhibitions 2023

An explosion of forms takes over the Ship of Fools - ocean ecosystems in origami and crochet by Neil Banas and Emily Doolittle, paired with paintings by Michelle Campbell, and ocean trash transformed to wearable art by Selena S Kuzman. Orkney artists join in, with work by Bill McArthur, Maiwenn Beadle, Rebecca Marr, Megumi Barrington Uenoyama, Lesley Mackay, Marion Yorston. Work inspired by Orkney tales meets magical ships in bottles from Len Wilson and Fiona Sanderson.

A new exhibition showing the remarkable impact on a range of artists, among them the scuptors Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, of a remarkable book by a remarkable man. D'Arcy Thompson's On Growth and Form, published in 1917, looked at the underlying mathematics of forms in nature.

After last year’s images of ‘Bringing the Light Back’, the photographers – spread across Orkney – will this year switch attention from the light itself to its impact on the land, sea, buildings, flora and fauna – wherever and whenever they come across an image. The exhibition will as usual be held in the Orkney Library, Junction Road, Kirkwall.