Northlight Gallery
Confluence New work by Samantha Clark
Confluence
New work
Drawings by Samantha Clark
9th - 20th September 2023
The drawings exhibited were the result of a slow and meditative practice, a patient accretion of simple marks that produced intricate forms resembling sea foam, cloud forms or wave patterns. Samantha uses reflective and iridescent media such as silver leaf and chrome ink in combination with acrylic and gouache to build up surfaces that change, as water does, with each shift of light and angle of view.
She was present in the gallery throughout the exhibition and visitors joined her in making a large-scale drawing, formed from thousands of tiny white circles that flowed together on a roll of black paper.
77° North in Orkney
77°North in Orkney
Edge textile artists Scotland
Artworks by Aileen Nielsen, Anita Hutchison, Ann Williams, Annette Bruton, Brenda Burkitt, Catherine Gowthorpe, Dawn Murray, Jennifer Hamshere, Jean Mellin, Kim Gunn, Liza Green, Maggie Le May, Mary Webster, Moira A. Dickson, Moira E. Dickson, Pamela Westwick, Shan Press, Sue Fraser, Sue Hotchkis, Susan McEwan, Wilma Graham, Yvonne Tweedle.
26th August - 6th September 2023
The whaling industry is not a subject which immediately springs to mind when one thinks of fine art textiles and embroidery but Edge members like a challenge. After drawing and research days and being given access to the archives at Dundee’s McManus Gallery and Museum, the subject proved fascinating despite its bloody history. The exhibition in Northlight was one of the outcomes.
Note: The title of the exhibition derives from research of the C19 whaling industry - ships might travel as far as 77°North, to the north of Baffin Bay, the far northwest coast of Greenland, a cold and hostile environment for men and ships alike.
Tang & Ware
Tang & Ware
Algal Art Exhibition
Artworks by Ingrid Budge, Magdalena Choluj, Rebecca Marr, Alison Moore, Ami Robb, Dawn Stevens and Sarah Wylie.
12th - 23rd August 2023
Photographer artist Rebecca Marr invited colleagues and friends to put together an exhibition on the theme of seaweed. It was described in the local press as “packed with beautiful images and erudite but engaging text.” The author, Duncan McLean, commented “it’s amazing what delicate beauty and vibrant colour lies just below the surface of the sea.”
Over the Edge
Over the Edge
An artist’s window into the Ness of Brodgar
Paintings by Jeanne Bouza Rose
29th July - 9th August 2023
The exhibition was a unique body of work created over the past five years. It was a personal, emotional and informed view of the archaeological dig. Jeanne invited professionals from the dig to meet visitors in the gallery and there was a festive atmosphere all week.
https://jeannebouzarose.com/pages/exhibition
www.facebook.com/OrkneyArtWorks/
Ships in the windows
Ships in the Windows
Ships in bottles by Calum Macauley, Tim Deakin, Isaac and Len Wilson, Fiona Sanderson
14th - 27th July 2023
Fiona Sanderson organised a fleet of ships in bottles for the windows of the gallery in Stromness Shopping Week. The bottles were made over a period of a hundred years, the most recent being one by Fiona, who made it last year under the tutelage of Len Wilson. She is carrying on a family tradition having seen both her grandfather and great grandfather, both light-house keepers, making models of ships in cases as well as in bottles.
Three more ships were brought into the gallery on the day they were placed into the windows and I apologise for not having the names of their makers to hand.