Archived Visual Arts

Peat and local soils were used in the glass castings but the show also includes screen prints, bronze casts of peats.

A collection of original artwork using printmaking techniques.

This exhibition highlights some of these craft traditions and heritage, helping to define our own identities and cultures. Join us for the opening on Friday 14 at 5pm

New work from the international Masters programme, Art, Space + Nature (ASN), Edinburgh College of Art; The University of Edinburgh, developed from a fieldtrip to Lewis & Harris in October 2016.

An Lanntair welcomes you aboard the Hebridean Cable Transit Company in a new exhibition by Philippa Thomas and Hector MacInnes, retracing the journey from its 1948 launch through its glorious heyday and onwards to its subsequent demise. At the centre of “Suspension and Disbelief” will be a completed restoration of the last surviving HCTC cable car gondola.

Geoff Stear: iNORGE • 1

Tartan Setts & Pattern Sticks: Jim Pattison

This series of editorial portraits depicts a selection of the most prominent Gaelic writers, as well as some writers new to the scene.

A compelling video and sound installation by this French artist that projects and
integrates nature (the sea, the tide) into mathematical space.

A new exhibition containing new and retrospective work from the ‘artist laureate’ of the Highlands and Islands.

An exhibition of striking ceramic figures celebrating the Herring Girls who serviced the fishing industry on which Stornoway was built.

The annual islands open exhibition, which began in the seventies, returned this February to coincide with An Lanntair’s 30th showcase for artists from – or resident in – the Western Isles

Alan Cumming, Neve Campbell, Chris Hoy, Sharleen Spiteri, Jack White, John Byrne – just some of the faces helping shape the image of Scotland and its culture.

Gairm nan Gaidheal is a collaboration between The Creative Cell and Proiseact nan Ealan, that includes personal stories from throughout the Islands

Grounded is an artistic examination of Australian Aboriginal and Scottish Gaelic culture, language, displacement and sense of place.

The gaelic word Fonn has various definitions relating to ‘land, music, state of mind, longing’ Writer Jay Griffiths describes the rich meanings of the word as suggesting, ‘a song of land, held in mind’ which echo the lines of enquiry in Mary’s practice.

The Obsidian Isle is a fictional island created by Gayle Chong Kwan, which houses Scotland’s lost and destroyed buildings and places – from structures removed during the Highland Clearances…

The Art, Space and Nature (ASN) Master’s programme, offers a framework of advanced study in the visual arts, architectural and environmental practice.

The exhibition, INCH KENNETH, showing at An Lanntair is a distillation of work developed and toured since 6°WEST’s 2011 residency on the island of Inch Kenneth.

Between the Web and the Loom is a collaboration between Joan Baxter, tapestry artist; John McGeoch, moving image artist; Claire Pençak, choreographer; Shamita Ray, dancer and James Wyness, composer.

Exhibition of wood sculpture and furniture by master craftsman Tim Stead. Striking sculptures and furniture pieces created mainly from elm, oak and ash.

This compelling and vivid photographic essay documents a day in the life of Harris crofter, Angus Campbell, in 2012.

‘Man’s one method, whether he reasons or creates, is to half-shut his eyes against the dazzle and confusion of reality.’ (Robert Louis Stevenson – Ian Bell, p.283) Helen Macalister Catalogue

Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh
The internationally renowned programme, ASN, established in 2003, offers a framework of advanced study in the visual arts, architectural and environmental practice.

Is a thing lost… if you know where it is?

Artist, singer, songwriter and producer Edwyn Collins is joined by three other artists, Donald Urquhart, Edward Summerton and Alec Finlay in the first of our series of exhibitions and events marking an Lanntair’s 25th anniversary.

This exhibition is the culmination of many years of research by the well known Gaelic writer and broadcaster Dr. Finlay Macleod.

In March 2008, artist Andy Goldsworthy spent one week on the Isle of North Uist at the invitation of Taigh Chearsabhagh.

Back in the mid-seventies the Islands had no exhibition space. Opportunties were limited to a once-a-year, 2 week slot in Stornoway Town Hall . Now this Island institution has a home in the finest gallery in the Highlands . It’s all inclusive and non-selective. An exhibition by everyone for everyone.

An exhibition of the Hebridean photographs of Robert Adam

This exhibition, features 2 bodies of work by 3 different artists, Kate Whiteford, Jon Macleod and Anne Campbell. July 2007

This exhibition is of the work that came from this long cold sojourn and was first shown at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh in 2006.

Our Journey, Our Voices Our Future THE CHILDREN’S PARLIAMENT & An Dealbh Mor The Big Picture

A one-day extravaganza of children’s animation featuring an exhibition in the gallery and animations in the auditorium.  The projects aims are to promote the Gaelic oral tradition, support minority cultures, collect new material for the oral tradition and advance digitisation of oral tradition archives.

An exhibition by digital artist Joe Mahony who has been working as artist in residence at the Grianan Day Care centre over the past year

An exhibition of the skilful, detailed and colourful work of Cuibhrigean Eilean Leodhais – The Lewis Quilt Group – is taking place in An Lanntair’s main gallery from the 9thDecember 2006.

The paintings of Aonghas Mhic Alasdair (Angus Morrison) of Ness are on display in the foyer and can be seen until July the 3rd.

The show is a retrospective exhibition of Joanne Breen’s textiles, embroidery and weaving.

A small but fascinating exhibition by the self-taught artists of Tory Island , off the coast of Ireland

A series of paintings of the Sleeping Lady as seen from Callanish celebrating this year’s major lunar standstill.

Lobht nan Seol: The Sail Loft Exhibition comprised of works by four varied, contrasting and international artists.