Public art and case studies
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30 August 2022
VACMA: Jane Haselden – Fibre Artist
“I have experimented with different wild and cultivated plants from our garden for weaving, paper-making (which I hope to use over the rest of the year for further experiments with weaving), and…
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24 May 2022
'Travellers' for GMB100
Commissioned as part of overall GMB100 activities marking the centenary of the writer’s birth, 'Travellers' was erected in the George Mackay Brown Community Garden in Stromness, in April 2022, and funded through Orkney Islands Council’s Culture Fund. Creative duo, local writer Gabrielle Barnby and visual artist Orla Stevens, drew on old maritime materials donated by the Orkney Historic Boat Society - embellished with words of young people from Kirkwall Grammar School and original text from GMB’s final posthumous collection ’Travellers’
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15 March 2022
VACMA: Jack Whitwell
Funded to undertake research and a period of experimentation in ‘photographic sculptures’: photographic installations that can exhibit in a three dimensional manner. “Using the research I had…
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18 February 2022
Herring Wall by Jack Whitewell
NHS Orkney, in partnership with Orkney Islands Council’s Art Development Service, invited artists to submit proposals to help create a distinctive identity for the new Hospital and Healthcare Facilities Hub area, now widely known as The Balfour while it was being built. This was supported by the charity Art in Healthcare. This was an important and high-profile public art opportunity in a much-anticipated new hospital. The aim of this project was to create a lovely public space with the artwork reflecting the community.
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23 November 2021
VACMA: Clare Gee
"Since pulling the tools together I have spent the majority of the year playing - making lengths of cloth, using firstly 4 shafts and simple patterns, up to 8 shafts and more complex patterns, mixing…
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20 September 2021
VACMA: Fiona Sanderson - Crucible
View a video of Fiona's work
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26 August 2021
VACMA: Jeanne Rose
Jeanne Rose says her work is “an expression of my impression of the sky and landscapes of Orkney punctuated with the work of people in the past.” “I am heavily influenced by the marks, rocks and way…
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5 July 2021
VACMA: Samantha Clark
“During the month of May 2021, I was able to spend an intensive period of time working in the studio and exploring the use of new surfaces such as kaolin, mica and silver leaf, with a particular…
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1 May 2021
Culture Fund: Tales o Hoy
Join the Hoy community as they take you on a circular trip around the parish. Over thirty voices, some archive recordings and many new, will accompany you as you hear about Hoy, its people and…
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1 February 2021
VACMA: India Johnson
Funding to research the history of women’s weaving in Orkney and explore these practices, exhibiting in Alnmouth, Northumberland and in the Get Your Tweed Out event at Kirkwall Library. “The fund…
