The Boat in the Writing Room: retracing the origins of Stonypath, Little Sparta Written and presented by Alistair Peebles | Directed by Michael Lloyd flytingfilms and Brae Editions, 2025 (57' 12") Screened 28 October 2025 at the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney A review by Brandon Logan LITTLE SPARTA,
Screenings currently under discussion. All details subject to confirmation. The list will be updated. The Space, Rousay, Orkney—October 25th, 2-4pm The Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney—October 28th, 7-9pm Dundee University, main lecture theatre, Tower Building—Tuesday November 18th, 5.30pm. Tickets (free) via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.
The film is still in development, but selections are to be previewed at Little Sparta on Sunday August 10. See https://www.littlesparta.org.uk/month-of-sundays/
The third part of this exploration has been unavoidably delayed, but these photographs are offered meantime as evidence of continuing activity. The Pier Arts Centre's centenary exhibition of work by Ian Hamilton Finlay closes on Saturday, and the loan to the gallery of a set of three ceramic
The Pier Arts Centre's Ian Hamilton Finlay and Orkney runs in tandem with the gallery's main exhibition of the season, Bet Low: An Island On Your Doorstep. The subtitle for the latter was selected from a passage in the artist's own writings about Orkney,
I’m most familiar with this silkscreen from seeing it at the Edinburgh home of the photographer Robin Gillanders, where till recently it hung in the hallway of his and his wife Marjory’s New Town flat. It’s one of a number of prints they were given by the