Virtual Gallery

Welcome to An Lanntair’s new virtual exhibition space, established so that people can view exhibitions in the familiar main gallery of An Lanntair.

The Virtual Gallery shows new exhibits and commissions, and also hosts an archive of exhibitions from when An Lanntair was based in Stornoway Town Hall.

Choose an exhibition and jump in and explore! Various elements within the exhibitions are interactive, linking to pieces of audio, video, text and images.

The An Lanntair virtual archive would not have been possible without the hard work of Ella Macaulay who painstakingly scanned slides and photographs from the entire history of An Lanntair.  You can access the scanned archive of the old An Lanntair here.
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  • Silence of a Look by Luis Gonzales Palma

    These images are from an exhibition by Guatemalan born photographer Luis Gonzales Palma held in the old An Lanntair premises in 1994. There are several ways to interact with the exhibition – you can pan around the gallery using your mouse, the arrow keys on your keyboard, or the controller arrows on the screen. And… More…

  • Visions in the Wind

    Visions in the Wind was an exhibition of traditional Japanese kites which was exhibited in the old An Lanntair in Stornoway Town Hall in 1993 There are several ways to interact with the exhibition – you can pan around the gallery using your mouse, the arrow keys on your keyboard, or the controller arrows on… More…

  • Sketchbook Challenge

    This is a virtual exhibition using images created by young people who have been taking part An Lanntair’s Sketchbook Project. Launched during lockdown, the Sketchbook Project has been working very well, with over 150 individuals now involved, each of whom have been sketching their responses to our daily challenges in the An Lanntair sketchbooks sent… More…

  • Acts of Faith by Steve Dilworth

    These are images taken during Steve Dilworth’s ‘Acts of Faith’ exhibition, first exhibited in the old An Lanntair venue in Stornoway Town Hall. There are several ways to interact with the exhibition – you can pan around the gallery using your mouse, the arrow keys on your keyboard, or the controller arrows on the screen.… More…

  • Submarine by Tom McKendrick

    These are images from Tom McKendrick’s exhibition ‘Submarine’ shown in the old An Lanntair venue in Stornoway Town Hall in September 1991. “The first and most ancient purpose of art was to visualise the invisible, gods the souls of ancestors, spirits, powers felt but unseen. Mythology was an integral part of this purpose, creating a… More…

  • Mary Morrison and Sandra Kennedy

    Mary Morrison and Sandra Kennedy Exhibition Images by Eolas Photography, 26/10/92. There are several ways to interact with the exhibition – you can pan around the gallery using your mouse, the arrow keys on your keyboard, or the controller arrows on the screen. And you can zoom in or out using the scroll wheel on… More…

  • Petrified Garden by Mark Johnston

    These are images from Mark Johnston exhibition ‘Petrified Garden’, presented in the old An Lanntair venue in Stornoway Town Hall in 1996. Petrified Garden takes as its theme the numerous prehistoric stone circles, avenues, tombs and alignments which are found in Scotland and throughout Northern Europe. These first attempts to establish reference points on the… More…