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Art in Public Places Scheme
Orkney Islands Council’s Culture Service operates the Art in Public Places scheme and annually acquire pieces for the existing collection. The collection is accessible to the public through schools, colleges, Orkney Library and Archive and other public buildings. For further information on where items in the collection are currently hanging please contact the curator at Orkney Museum: museum@orkney.gov.uk or phone 01856 873191.
Public Art
The Culture Service also supports a number of Public Art commissions usually in conjunction with specific commemorative events. Most recently it provided Covid Recovery Fund for Culture 2023 support for the SUN installation in St Magnus Cathedral as part of the Orkney International Science Festival 2023.
Currently, there are two projects in development:
Remembering Together the Scottish Government Covid Memorial projects and Island Games Scrivener/Story Gatherer and Sound Artist initiatives.
See further information below:
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George Mackay Brown
Orkney Museum currently houses the portrait of George Mackay Brown by Alexander Moffat, which was restored for the Stromness bicentenary exhibition at The Pier Arts Centre in 2017. Sandy Moffat very kindly offered to do the restoration at no cost to OIC and the painting is on display in the drawing room. Sandy Moffat visited Orkney at the beginning of October 2019 to see the portrait on display.
Stromness, its history, people and, not least, the old library meant so much to both George and Ian that the new premises are the right and appropriate place for this painting to hang.
1 January 2017
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Poppies: Weeping Window
St Magnus Cathedral hosted ‘Poppies: Weeping Window’ by artist Paul Cummins and designer Tom Piper to mark the centenary of The Battle of Jutland. The presentation of Weeping Window was supported by Northlink Ferries and the learning and engagement programme for the Poppies: Wave and Weeping Window was supported by the Foyle Foundation
1 January 2016
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