GEORGINA COBURN has been out and about the meeting visual artists and organisations throughout the Highlands and Islands to prepare a report for HI~Arts. Georgina airs some of the issues raised during interviews, and invites feedback from Northings readers ahead of the final report and associated conference later this year.

CAROL SMITH welcomes the opening of the Seven Gates project in Wick

ALISTAIR PEEBLES investigates an ambitious visual arts residency project in Kirkwall.

ALISTAIR PEEBLES discovers that small scale – and we do mean small – needn’t mean small ambition

GEORGINA COBURN investigates a new initiative offering creative breakaways in the Highlands & Islands

IAN STEPHEN reflects on his experience with Dagmar Glausnitzer-Smith and Charles Ryder’s Transit Station.

Evanton-based ARTS IN MOTION kick off Northings new survey of the member companies of the Highlands & Islands Theatre Network

KENNY MATHIESON continues his talk with Nairnshire-based new media artists SIMON FILDES and KATRINA McPHERSON.

KENNY MATHIESON talks to Nairnshire-based new media artists SIMON FILDES and KATRINA McPHERSON.

GEORGINA COBURN reports on the rebirth of the Highland Print Studio in Inverness