{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"DES Talks with Susanna Beaumont","title":"Exploring Pier Arts Centre, Orkney","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2115,"description":"Welcome to this conversation exploring Pier Arts Centre, an outstandingly beautiful art gallery on Orkney, an archipelago off the north of mainland Scotland.\nWe talk about its celebrated collection of British Modernism and a recent gift of over 60 contemporary arts works of huge international significance. We also remember the artist Christine Borland who sadly died last month. Her exhibition Divine Imperfect was held at the Pier in 2012.\nSusanna speaks to Pier curator Andrew Parkinson about the life and times of the late Margaret Gardiner, whose gift of over 60 artworks in the 1970s was the impetus to the formation of the Pier which opened in the small town of Stromness in 1979. Her collection exemplifies British Modernism and includes works by Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and Margaret Mellis. And this year, the publisher and collector Charles Asprey, gifted over 50 works by contemporary artists from the UK and beyond to Pier. Artists include Wolfgang Tillmans, Kitty Kraus and Manfred Pernice and the exhibition, 'Through Their Eyes - The Pier Arts Centre Collection and the unfolding Asprey gift', which is currently on at Pier, offers moving juxtapositions of works by artists such as Pernice and Ben Nicholson; Kitty Kraus and Margaret Mellis and Michael Dean and Eduardo Paolozzi. She speaks to Charles about collecting and gifting. \nSusanna goes on to speak to the Glasgow-based artist, Erin McQuarrie whose exhibition The Scale of Things is inspired by the Orcadian, filmmaker and poet, Margaret Tait. The textile works, some suspended, others wall-based are made of wool and linen frequently dyed by plants foraged by Erin. Erin also talks about the importance of her residency last year at Linkshouse on Orkney, which is run by Pier.\nPier Arts Centre\nCharles Asprey \nErin McQuarrie \nLinkshouse residency programme\nChristine Borland's obituary in The Guardian\nTo find out more about the work of Orkney-born filmmaker and poet, Margaret Tait (1918-1999) head to Lux and to...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/M6ZBzbq7ifqt1qZC4EGIWhi8Zl70NhK5Aj5-KN70JnI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85NmNh/OWU0M2Y2MThjMTc1/ODMwNWNkNzNkMjM5/NTk4MC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}