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A day of stimulating conversation in the Isle of Bute

24 April 2017

Blog post by ATLAS Arts producer, Shona Cameron, on her recent visit to the Isle of Bute to participate in the Clore Leadership Programme, development day. The event, organised by the Clore Leadership Programme was in partnership with Rothesay Pavilion and supported by Creative Scotland.

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Abstracted black and white film still take whilst the artist was driving across the island.

Richard Skelton // Research visit to Skye

02 March 2017

ATLAS has commissioned artist Richard Skelton, to respond to Bethan Huws’ film Singing for the Sea, and the landscape that formed its temporary backcloth when we screened it in Skye Sailing Club in 2016. Richard’s work is informed by landscape, evolving from sustained immersion in specific environments and deep, wide-ranging…

Photo of Kyle and Kyleakin primary school pupils involved in the 'Travelling the Archive' school project, sitting outside a church

Travelling the Archive // Schools project

16 January 2017

Travelling the Archive // Kyleakin and Kyle Primary schools None of the children attending either of the schools on each side of the Skye bridge have experience of life before the bridge, which opened in 1995 linking these two communities in a new way. Once the bridge was built Caledonian MacBrayne who…

Wall in Kochi featuring the biennale's branding for 2016

Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016

12 January 2017

The Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) is an international festival of contemporary visual art hosted in the city of Kochi, in Kerala, Southern India. It is India’s largest contemporary art event, and the only biennale in South Asia.Now in its third edition, it has grown in scale and reputation. I was fortunate…

Photo of ATLAS pop up shop in the office

#ShopSmall this Christmas and Support the Arts

24 November 2016

Looking for that special Christmas gift? Help support the arts this Christmas by purchasing a unique ATLAS Edition. All profits are reinvested into our programme so that we can continue to commission and produce contemporary art here in the Isle of Skye. We also have a fantastic Christmas competition with your chance to win £50 worth of ATLAS goodies!

A Work for the North Atlantic // Singing for the Sea – Closing Event

03 October 2016

The special event to mark the closing of the film installation Singing for the Sea by Bethan Huws was a wonderful afternoon with fantastic performances and a delicious BBQ and cakes!

Neo Neo Associates

22 September 2016

For NEO NEO // Extreme Past, ATLAS was delighted to be able to offer a mentoring opportunity for recent graduates and final year students from Scottish art schools. The Neo Neo Associates were given the opportunity to work closely with the curators to develop a public event in response to the…

Land Line // A week of contrasts and balances by Caroline Dear

20 September 2016

This was a week of contrasts and balances, of new understandings and of fresh connections. Our existing knowledge about the land deepened along with an increased understanding and appreciation of each other over the week. It was a stimulating and fluid meeting of ideas and knowledge linked with place and…

Friday Afternoons Workshop at Portree Primary School, children taking part in the workshop led by Charles McDougall

Aldeburgh Music // Friday Afternoons

16 September 2016

Aldeburgh Music visited Skye for the first time to run a series of singing and composition workshops as part of their Friday Afternoons’ programme. This is part of a larger project called A Work for the North Atlantic.

GATHER | CONNECT | INSPIRE // Talent Development Zine

14 August 2016

To mark the culmination of the Skye and Lochalsh Talent Development Initiative (TDI), which was celebrated as part of GATHER | CONNECT | INSPIRE 2016, ATLAS produced a free magazine. The aim was to document the event through photography and explore and preserve the conversations that emerged as part of the project….

Photo of Apothecary's Tower, Portree, encased in a temporary pink structure as part of the 'Are you LOCATIONALIZED' project

ATLAS Arts commission wins prestigious Saltire Society Award

11 August 2016

Are you LOCATIONALIZED by Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan, part of GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, has been announced as the winner of a prestigious Saltire Society Arts in Public Places Award, 2016.