Visual artist OLWEN SHONE travelled to Bangalore, and discovered a world far removed from – and yet connected to – her home ground in North Uist, where the project began

Lewis band SIGN RED have been grabbing the headlines for their enduring popularity with the listeners of Radio 1’s Vic and Gill show, and are heading into a third week at the top of that show’s Battle of the Demo Bands. PETER URPETH catches up with them in Stornoway and finds a band determined to enjoy and build on their recent success from their home shores.

Venue profile: An Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis

NORTHINGS is delighted to be working with Lewis poet and visual artist IAN STEPHEN on an exciting project to host a daily Log from his latest artistic voyage on his yacht, the El Vigo.

Stornoway poet IAN STEPHEN is an artist in residence at this year’s Stanza Poetry festival in St Andrews, where his work will explore poetry and the sea.

THE ARTS JOURNAL is a journal of comment and criticism rather than fiction and poetry, but in another well-established publishing tradition, we offer a short story for the New Year by Contributing Editor Peter Urpeth

Còmhla was a major International Artist’s Workshop that took place at Taigh Chearsabagh Arts Centre in Lochmaddy, North Uist, in September. JULIE BROOK was one of the participating artists, and now reflects here on her experience.

Venue Profile: Taigh Chearsabhagh

PETER URPETH reports on the unveiling in Stornoway of a new acquisition by the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

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…