REBECCA MARR photographer

ON SHOW NOW

Soulisquoy Printmakers – 40 Years Exhibition Group Show at the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness until 15 April 2023.

Currently showing two pieces at Stromness Museum The Stone Speaks exhibition explores the themes of fossils, creativity and climate.

The show runs to 31 March 2023.

AFTER ORCADIA

See the After Orcadia exhibtion and publication website here.

WHEN THE GRASS DANCES

A collection made in collaboration with poet Valerie Gillies.

Walk among the wild grasses of Scotland. See the collection here.

Grass greetings cards here

THE FLAGSTONES OF STROMNESS

Walking Lake Orcadie exhibition and publication

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updates below

Pride

I’m proud to have work in a couple of current shows. My Pride poster is on show at the Pier Arts Centre as part of the celebration of 40 years of Soulisquoy Printmakers on until the 15th of April. It was made at Soulisqouy Printmakers in a Pride Orkney workshop by Diana Leslie. And it’s … Continue reading →

Clouds in Rousay

A week in Rousay, some of it with my head in the clouds and some with my mind on the grasses.

Seaweed & grasses in Papay

I’m heading out to Papa Westray this weekend for a Seaweed chocolate workshop and a Grasses talk. Looking forward to being back in Papay and I hear there is a pot luck dinner too.

Holy Grass Hero

Valerie and I are delighted to be showing work at the Dunnet bay Distillery in Caithness. The Holy Grass Hero: The Life of Robert Dick exhibition and events programme will celebrate the life and work of Robert Dick, an eccentric polymath, scientific genius, and local hero. The exhibition runs from 02 December 2022 to 25 … Continue reading →

Namer of the skies

Tomorrow, November 28th, is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Luke Howard or Look Cloudward as my poet pal Val calls him. Over to the Cloud Appreciation Society (of which I am an enthusiastic member) to explain the importance of his life. On a cold December evening in 1802, this modest young Quaker presented … Continue reading →

Linklet Bay

For this year’s Open Christmas Show at the Pier Arts Centre I’ve submitted two North Ronaldsay prints (both single edition prints). I photographed the ripples of sea over the sands of Linklet Bay. When I looked at the photographs later they seemed to miss the what I saw as the sea rushed in and was … Continue reading →

The Stone Speaks

The new winter exhibition at Stromness Museum ‘The Stone Speaks’ explores the themes of fossils, creativity and climate. I’m pleased to be showing two photographs alongside the work of artist Mary Grieve, who undertook an artists residency on the Skye Fossils Art/Science project. The exhibition will feature some of the wonderful fossils from the Stromness … Continue reading →