Scalloway, Shetland, October 2004

ROSIE SOMERVILLE reports on the Kinloch Hills oakwoods project, part of the Aig An Oir (At The Edge) initiative to bring together art and Scotland’s woodlands.

CATRIONA PAUL at the Movies. PADDY CONSIDINE was my reason for seeing this violent revenge story. Noble as a grieving father in In America opposite Samantha Morton; re-born as a criminal who’d found God in Pawel Pawlikowski’s Edinburgh festival hit, My Summer of Love. In Dead Man’s Shoes, he plays Richard, recently released from the […]

Artist MARGARET GOSLEY is showing her works in felt and poetry at An Tobar this month.

ALISTAIR PEEBLES finds Orkney school children exploring their own windows on the world with the help of visual artists

TOBY LITT, one of the rising stars of British fiction, kindly gave the Arts Journal permission to run one of his occasional ‘editorials’.

Borderline Theatre Company, on tour October 2004

IAIN BANKS is a highly successful author of both mainstream fiction and – writing as Iain M. Banks – sophisticated science fiction. What’s more, he likes book festivals, and is looking forward to revisiting Inverness.

ALISTAIR PEEBLES considers the artistic achievement of North Ronaldsay painter and sculptor IAN SCOTT in the light of his latest exhibition in Stromness.

FRED MORRISON is one of the leading lights in world bagpiping, and has made an equally sensational impact in both traditional piping and in more contemporary folk styles. Kenny Mathieson puts the questions.