Compass Gallery exhibits and promotes artists from all across Scotland, many of whom have few opportunities to exhibit in the main city centre galleries. With this new exhibition we are pleased to introduce our audiences to the works of this group of artists based in the Black Isle.

“The Black Isle Collective are a group of six visual artists from the Black Isle in the Highlands of Scotland, brought together by shared inspirations. Their intention in exhibiting as a collective is to provide an opportunity to create work that spurs a dialogue between artists and viewers, around themes such as place, ecology, and identity.

This exhibition’s title, Deasoil, is taken from Amanda Thomson’s ‘A Scots Dictionary of Nature’. It means ‘walking with the sun from east to west’. Through Painting, Drawing, Poetry, and Sculpture each artist takes us on a journey, to explore what it is to inhabit their physical and imagined space, alone and together”.

Participating artists: Anita Murray, Rosie Newman, Kathleen Madigan, Izzy Thomson, Alice Taylor, Rachel Bevan Baker