Creative Scotland has today (22nd September 2011) showcased the arts organisation ATLAS Arts and the recent event Bàta Brèagha/Bonnie Boat on the Creative Scotland website.

On the 10 September 2011 Skye based arts organisation ATLAS Arts presented their first ever major public event on the island: Bàta Brèagha/Bonnie Boat. In an ambitious programme of events that combined a radio broadcast, pop up exhibitions, workshops, craft, walks and music, the centrepiece was Celestial Radio – a sailing boat created by artists Zoë Walker and Neil Bromwich, covered in over 60,000 mirrored tiles.

ATLAS was established in 2010 to generate innovative and ambitious visual arts projects in Skye and Lochalsh. Its aim is to provide a new platform for the creation of projects, which are not fixed by, or to, a permanent gallery space. The emphasis is on high quality, contemporary projects, incorporating educational work and involvement from the community in variety of forms – placing work within a local, national and international context.

Read the Creative Scotland feature in full here: http://www.creativescotland.com/showcase/visual-arts

“Atlas Arts are delighted with Bàta Brèagha/Bonnie Boat, our first major public event in the Isle of Skye. It was wonderful to see a steady stream of visitors and residents flocking to the pier in Portree to see Celestial Radio, the star attraction of the programme. Bàta Brèagha/Bonnie Boat is a project rooted in the history and people of Skye and we couldn’t have done it without them – around 130 local folk contributed to the project. It was wonderful to showcase local talent as well exceptional work from international artists. Later in the night we had a cèilidh with musicians Hector MacInnes and Leighton Jones of the Dead Man Waltz, Bramax and Portree High School band The Outsiders. Celestial Skye the soundscape will be available to download from October at www.atlasarts.org.uk.  Thanks again to all who contributed and participated”. Emma Nicolson, ATLAS Director

Source: ATLAS Arts