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  • 21 February – 28 March 2026 Keith McIntyre RSA | What Lies Beyond The subject of this new exhibition is...
    Keith McIntyre RSA, What Lies Beyond, installation view. Image credit RSA
    21 February – 28 March 2026
    Keith McIntyre RSA  |  What Lies Beyond
     
    The subject of this new exhibition is immortalising the soul, from the grotesque, playful world of Japanese Butoh, the ‘dance of darkness.’ The gallery is transformed into a congregation of boats, cairns and satellites, each operating as a conveyor of the soul.
  • Aghaidh Ris An Achadh : Facing the Field – Fraser MacBeath 4 April – 16 May 2026 Fraser MacBeath is...
    Fraser MacBeath, Aghaidh Ris An Achadh : Facing the Field

    Aghaidh Ris An Achadh : Facing the Field – Fraser MacBeath

    4 April – 16 May 2026

     

    Fraser MacBeath is an audiovisual artist, composer and field recordist from the Isle of Lewis. He won the RSA Benno Schotz Prize for the most promising work by a Scottish artist under 35 at the Royal Scottish Academy 197th Annual Exhibition. His practice looks in part to continue the legacy of 20th-century field recordists who documented rural Scottish culture, while using the material to create contemporary artworks that reflect modern realities. His work often marries traditional elements with contemporary audiovisual technology. Creating narratives which weave past and present, evoking reflections on memory, sense of place, cultural identity, and the relationship between tradition and modernity.

     

    This work examines cultural change and depopulation in his home in the Outer Hebrides.

    The work asks whether small cultures can still be shaped collectively. The past is not finished but something we are responsible for continuing, and the installation explores how that inheritance sits within a contemporary context. Without collective action, culture risks becoming thin, fragmented, or lost.

     

     

     

     
  • 22 May – 4 July 2026 John MacKechnie RSA, MBE | Uisge: Water An exhibition of screenprints on the theme...
    John MacKechnie RSA, Back of Keppoch, ©The Artist
    22 May – 4 July 2026
    John MacKechnie RSA, MBE  |  Uisge: Water
     
    An exhibition of screenprints on the theme of water, by John MacKechnie RSA, former Director of Glasgow Print Studio.
  • Elsa McTaggart : Capturing the Light Saturday 13 June The fifth child of Gaelic speaking Kintyre crofters, William McTaggart RSA...
    Elsa McTaggart, Capturing the Light, image credit Ralph Tonge

    Elsa McTaggart : Capturing the Light
    Saturday 13 June

     

    The fifth child of Gaelic speaking Kintyre crofters, William McTaggart RSA became one of Scotland’s most celebrated artists through sheer determination and hard work. What is his legacy a century on, for his country and his family?

    In Capturing the Light, Isle of Lewis singer-songwriter Elsa McTaggart tells the story of her great grandfather’s extraordinary life and talent, and how it shaped her own identity and creativity.

    Produced by Hebridean arts company sruth-mara (creators of Precious Cargo, Move-Gluasad and Soil and Soul), in association with An Lanntair, this visually striking new theatre show is written and performed by Elsa McTaggart and directed by Laura Cameron-Lewis, with production design by Robbie Thomson. 

     

    Following its debut at An Lanntair, Capturing the Light will transfer to the Edinburgh Fringe. The show will be part of this year’s Made in Scotland showcase, which promotes a small selection of new Scottish work to international audiences.
  • About An Lanntair
    An Lanntair gallery space

    About An Lanntair

    An Lanntair is a hub for creativity and the Arts in the Outer Hebrides. We are a multi arts venue – at one and the same time a contemporary art gallery, a theatre, a cinema, a dance studio, a concert hall, a platform for poetry and literature, a studio – every space stretched to showcase the Arts in multiple forms. Our work stretches across a national and international platform, yet our distinctiveness lies in being ‘of the place’, rooted in who we are, and the creativity of Gaelic and the Outer Hebrides takes centre stage.

     

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