peedie gallery news
The latest news from the Peedie Gallery.
5th June 2007
The Peedie Gallery is currently closed for the duration of the summer - we're
moving house. We'll be re-opening later this year.
28th March 2007
The Peedie Gallery is pleased to announce our next exhibition - Transparencies:
Bands of Paint by artist Jade
Stout - which will
be hosted at Orkney College, in Kirkwall, from Friday 30th March
until Friday 25th of
May 2007.
More info about Jade's work can be found at: www.jadestout.co.uk.
Transparencies: Bands of Paint by Jade Stout
15th March 2007
The Peedie Gallery is currently closed while we conduct some refurbishment
and prepare for the next exhibition in late March - Transparencies:
Bands of Paint by artist Jade
Stout.
The show will be hosted at Orkney College in Kirkwall.
20th February 2007
The next artist to exhibit at the Peedie Gallery is - Transparencies:
Bands of Paint by artist Jade Stout. The next
show will be hosted at Orkney College in Kirkwall.
Details to follow.
Jade Stout
12th November 2006
The Peedie Gallery is currently on tour
and is not at its current location (Stromness Library) - it is visiting the Highlands & Islands
Visual Arts Gathering, organised by HI~Arts,
in Ullapool for a few days. The Gallery will return to its host location
by Friday 17th November. and we apologise for the disruption to the current
exhibition.
1st November 2006
An article, entitled 'A
Peedie Piece for a Peedie Gallery', about Jen Hadfield's exhibition Our
Lady of Isbister, has been featured on the HI~Arts website.
13th October 2006
The Peedie Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of its third exhibition
- Our Lady of Isbister - by
poet and artist Jen Hadfield. For this exhibition, the Peedie Gallery is located on
the outsize shelf in Stromness Library, Orkney.
Our Lady of Isbister runs until Friday 15th December 2006.
Our Lady of Isbister by Jen Hadfield
30th September 2006
The Peedie Gallery is currently closed for exhibition changeover. The next
exhibition, for October to December 2006, is Our
Lady of Isbister by poet
and artist Jen Hadfield
(dates and location to be confirmed soon).
Our Lady of Isbister by Jen Hadfield
Jen Hadfield was born in 1978 in Cheshire and is half-Canadian. She lives in Shetland, where she is working on her second poetry collection, Nigh-No-Place. Her first collection, Almanacs, won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003. She has just won the Mclennan Award for poetry with her poem Towhee. Jen works as a poet, photographer, artist, tutor, and has sold everything from cod to Cashel Blue. She also makes artist books from time to time. Her latest project, The Printer's Devil & The Little Bear, was in collaboration with fine printer Ursula Freeman at the Redlake Press. Jen's website is at www.rogueseeds.co.uk
5th August 2006
You can now view the current exhibition at the Peedie Gallery - Coming
of Age by John Shapter
- online on this website.
29th July 2006
'Coming of Age', an installation
by artist and poet John Shapter opens today at the Peedie Gallery.
27th July 2006
The Peedie Gallery was featured in today's issue of 'The
Orcadian' newspaper. Click the image below to read the article (439Kb
Adobe PDF).
25th July 2006
Exhibition preview invitation
Meet the artist, John Shapter
'Coming of Age' by John Shapter
Preview: 11am, Saturday 29th July @ the Orkney Museum, Kirkwall.
The Peedie Gallery will be located in an old empty water tank within a small cupboard, towards the top of the large 1820 staircase in the Museum.
22nd July 2006
The Peedie Gallery is exhibiting, for 1 hour only, work by American artist
Sol Lewitt (an unofficial and unauthorised show) today at Churchill Barrier
#4 in Orkney (Burray side). The exhibition, entitled 'Fragment #4' is
a tiny piece of Sol's cinderblock sculpture '123454321' - currently based
at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. You can view the exhibition online here.
Sol Lewitt at the Peedie Gallery
21st July 2006
The Peedie Gallery is currently closed until the 29th of July 2006,
when the next exhibition - 'Coming
of Age' by John Shapter - opens at the Orkney Museum.
18th July 2006
John Shapter's exhibition
at the Peedie, entitled 'Coming
of Age' (29th July - 29th September), will be hosted at the Orkney Museum
(Tankerness House) in Kirkwall, Orkney. The Peedie Gallery - the art gallery
in a shoebox - will be located in an old empty water tank within a small
cupboard, towards the
top
of the
large 1820 staircase in the Museum. 'Coming
of Age' - an insight into the mysterious 'Bay People' of Orkney - is
an installation by the artist of three 'found' objects.
John Shapter at the Orkney Museum
The Orkney Museum is open 10.30am - 5.00pm, Monday to Saturday.
Thanks to Orkney Museums and Heritage and to Tom Muir, Exhibitions Officer at Orkney Museum, for their kind support with this exhibition.
The Orkney Museum
Tankerness House, Broad Street, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1DH. Telephone 01856
873191.
17th July 2006
The current exhibition at the Peedie Gallery - 'coupling',
by Stromness based art collaborative Christil Trumpet - ends on Friday the 21st
of July. The Peedie Gallery will be then closed for a week for exhibition changeover
and will be re-opened on Saturday 29th July with the next exhibition
'Coming of
Age', by the artist and poet John Shapter. The Peedie Gallery will also change
its host location and will be sited in the Orkney Museum, Kirkwall, for this
show.
30th June 2006
St. Margaret's Hope (South Ronaldsay) based artist John
Shapter will be the
next artist to exhibit at the Peedie Gallery - from Saturday 29th July
to Friday 29th September. John
is
currently
working on his exhibition - titled 'Coming
of Age' - for
the Peedie. The Gallery will be changing location for this exhibition
and will be
sited
within the
Orkney Museum in Kirkwall. Further details of John's exhibition and exact
location to follow.
Artist John Shapter with the Peedie
16th June 2006
Visited the Peedie? Why not also visit the new Peedie Gallery
online shop.
You
can
now
purchase
special Peedie
Gallery merchandise direct from our CafePress.com online store.
The Peedie Gallery offers a range of merchandising via its CafePress.com online store, which has over 30 types of products - including clothing, housewares, postcards, mugs, badges and more.
The Peedie Gallery shop at
2nd June 2006
The feature article, entitled 'Out
of the Box', about the launch of
the Peedie Gallery (written by Alistair Peebles), is now on the HI~Arts website.
30th May 2006
Visit the Resources section of the website to find
out how to send a Peedie Gallery electronic postcard,
or ecard - a new feature
added to our site today. The Resources section of
our website also lists further information about the Peedie, its manifesto and
technical
details - plus its also where
you can download a Peedie Gallery desktop wallpaper to your PC.
22nd May 2006
The inaugural exhibition at the Peedie Gallery, 'coupling' by
Stromness art collaborative Christil
Trumpet, has now been officially launched. The exhibition runs until Friday
21st July.
May 2006
The first show at the Peedie Gallery - 'coupling' by Christil
Trumpet - has
been installed by the artists in the gallery. The date of opening for
the inaugural show is Monday 22nd May 2006. The exhibition will run for two
calendar months at the Peedie Gallery, until Friday 21st July 2006. 'coupling' can
also be viewed online at this website.
For this exhibition the Peedie Gallery is located in the office of the Arts
Development Officer at Orkney Islands Council. Due to limited space at
the venue,
prior arrangements are necessary for visiting and viewing the Peedie Gallery.
Contact Clare
Gee, Arts Development Officer at Orkney Islands Council (School Place,
Kirkwall) to arrange a viewing.
Detail of 'coupling' by Christil Trumpet
April 2006
The first host venue of the Peedie Gallery is to be on a shelf in the office
of the Arts Development Officer at Orkney Islands Council, School Place, Kirkwall.
Arts Development office at Orkney Islands Council
March 2006
The first version of the Peedie Gallery - the art gallery in a shoebox - is
a small green cardboard box with the following internal dimensions: width 130mm,
length 255mm, height 115mm. This website (www.peediegallery.co.uk)
has been setup to document the exhibitions at the gallery.
The Peedie Gallery (version 1)
