Innovators Exhibition

Innovators

Orkney`s Art graduates 

2015 & 2016

25 February - 17 April 2017

Pier Arts Centre

This exhibition celebrates the work of young artists who have studied in Orkney, either as school pupils or as undergraduates. All have gone on to gain degree awards in art, design or architecture from art school or colleges throughout the UK.

This was a fantastic and inspirational show, especially for those of us still at college!!

It also demonstrated the diversity and talent of our island folk.

Russell Gilmour 

In his work, Russell considers the complex relationship between our outer and inner self 

exploring these divergent worlds through his drawing and painting.

Charlotte Slater

Charlotte has her degree in Landscape Architecture and now works as a Marine Spatial Planning Officer in Shetland where she has been conducting a coastal character assessment. A relatively new method that looks at a variety of topics such as geology, history, industry and culture.

Erlend Firth

Erlend is an interior designer who strives to create playful spaces based on in-depth research making subtle references to fine art and popular culture.

Leanne Fisher

As a product designer, Leanne is increasingly concerned with the ecological impact of product manufacture and disposal. She questions the need for so many products and if design could be used, not to sell but rethink the role objects play in our lives?

Emma Fraser

Emma`s installation was titled `Forty Winks`  through which she created a dream like web that drew the viewer in and included crystallised objects that related to the dreams of family and friends.

Rachel Blair

Rachel is a jewellery designer and combines precious metal with hand-dyed papers to create pieces that express tension, pressure and balance between the materials.

Anna Clark

Anna works in an intuitive yet methodical way, her ideas evolve and develop organically through the physical and repetitive action of cutting paper.

Samantha Marwick

This piece was titled `Time Travel` and merged together a tobacco tin, music box and dandelion to create a puzzling yet compelling piece. Samantha`s work revolves around collecting and play, displaying natural and discarded objects together to address more complex issues surrounding our relationship with the environment.

Kirstin Wishart

Titled `Scan Results 1 - 3` these light box prints had an underlying impetus that was prompted by Kirstin`s personal and close family experiences of breast cancer.

Susan Boyd

These digital images of human form are some what disturbing when viewed through a fish-eyed lens.
Susan`s work explores attitudes and responses to the human body, through her work she seeks to challenge and question established perceptions of age, gender and stereotypes.

This is just a small example of what this exhibition has to offer so if you want to appreciate it in it`s entirety then I recommend you go along to the Pier Arts Centre and take a look, it`s well worth it!!