DONNIE MUNRO is best known as a singer, both as a solo artist and as the former lead singer with Runrig.

At this year’s Venice Biennale, Scotland was represented for the first time by an official pavilion. As well as the three artists featured there – Claire Barclay, Simon Starling and Jim Lambie – several other Scottish artists took part in the related ‘Zenomap’ project. One was Orcadian COLIN KIRKPATRICK.

TOM BRYAN looks ahead to a new festival dedicated to the work of the great Caithness novelist and dramatist Neil M Gunn

KATRINA MCPHERSON is Scotland’s leading practitioner in the relatively new art of video dance.

CHRISTINE PRIMROSE is one of the great voices in traditional Gaelic singing. PETER URPETH looks at Christine’s contribution, and welcomes a new recording with Brian Ó hEadhra

So what went on when a group of international artists gathered at Taigh Chearsabhagh in Lewis in September to participate in Còmhla – North Uist International Artists Workshop? Many strange things, it seems, if this mysterious missive to the Arts Journal is anything to go by…

JEAN NOBLE discusses her Cycle of the Trees of Life exhibition at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery

In the footsteps of David Balfour Actor DAVID FITZGERALD is playing David Balfour in Perth Theatre & Mull Theatre’s joint touring production of Kidnapped. He has agreed to keep a diary of his travels in the path of Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous hero for the Arts Journal. Day One – Monday 6th October I rose […]

MURIEL ANN MACLEOD, the artistic director of Theatre Hebrides, tells KENNY MATHIESON about the Lewis-based company’s first touring production.

SIMON FILDES explains the genesis and rationale behind the dedicated artist’s website www.leftluggage.co.uk