This art gallery in Stromness, Orkney with its northern outlook was founded as a home for an art collection built up by Margaret Gardiner in the 1930s and 40s. It was she who donated the nucleus of the collection and includes works by Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth.There is always a changing programme of local, national and international exhibitions and events, details of which can be obtained here.
The adjacent post focuses on one artist, Olafur Eliasson, whose work The Colour Spectrum Series 2005 featured in the current exhibition called North Light - Cynosure.
It's a building that works. The light comes in through different shaped windows and the then the light from the gallery, as well as the viewer's eye, goes out on to the Stromness waterfront.
The gallery re-opened July 7, 2007 after a two-and-a-half-year closure. They applied for - and won - more than £4.5 million of funding from the Scottish Arts Council and Heritage Lottery Funds, from the European Union and from Orkney Islands Council. The result - designed by architect Neil Gillespie - is a gallery that leaves the original building intact and links it to the building next door. The whole thing is just beautiful!
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