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OPPORTUNITY // PROJECT ASSISTANT

16 August 2017

ATLAS Arts is seeking an enthusiastic friendly individual to join our team as a temporary project assistant. You will act as a welcoming host for an upcoming sound installation in the Skye Sailing Club boathouse. For a period of 13 days, ATLAS will present Richard Skelton’s new commission, Eilean Fuinn….

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Stitched plastic found on the beach. Large yellow bit of plastic attached to a wooden stick and three blue bits sewn together.

The Admiral’s House Residency | Martin Campbell

03 August 2017

I arrived at The Admiral’s House in Lower Ollach, Isle of Skye on the 20th July for the first stint of my six-week artist residency organised by Wasps Studios, Glasgow and ATLAS Arts, Portree. My only plan before arriving here was to not really plan that much; just see what…

Atelier Skye visit to Staffin Dinosaur Museum

Opportunity // PhD Studentship

11 July 2017

The University of Edinburgh, in partnership with the University of Aberdeen, Deveron Projects, ATLAS Arts and Collective is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified PhD applicant for a Creative Economy Studentship to conduct situated artistic-anthropological research that both contributes to, and helps us to better understand, the R&D, programming, commissioning and evaluation of art organisations. The studentship will commence in autumn 2017.

CÒIG SGIATHAN | FIVE WINGS – 25 WALKS ON THE ISLE OF SKYE & LOCHALSH

03 July 2017

After many months of planning and anticipation Còig Sgiathan | Five Wings has begun. Fifteen artists from a range of disciplines are joining walks that will take place between June and October. Diana Mackie is a painter who has recently made her first film combining her dramatic landscapes with music, dance and poetry. She joined one…

Opportunity // Programme Assistant

22 June 2017

ATLAS Arts is working with Adopt an Intern to offer this opportunity for a programme assistant to join the ATLAS team over the summer to assist with our busy programme of projects and events. This includes CLIMAVORE: On Tidal Zones and A Work for the North Atlantic. The closing date…

The group gathering in the Drawing Room.

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.

Photo of Screen It event. Audience facing a screen whilst Suzy introduces the film.

Grace Morton | ATLAS Intern Blog

02 April 2017

An important thing I’ll take away from my time with ATLAS is a new found appreciation for being bilingual and speaking Gàidhlig.

Image of the NFT 1 cinema at the BFI London during SCREENING DAYS. Red seats slope towards the screen.

ICO // Screening Days – BFI London, 11-13 March 2017

13 March 2017

By Suzy Lee, SCREEN-IT programmer and Office Manager This year’s Independent Cinema Office Screening Days were back at my favourite cinema, the BFI, London in March, previewing the best of independent cinema due for release in April to June. Having not attended one of these screening days before, I was super…

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…