Martin S. Laird

Artist | film-maker | animator

Tag: music

  • Meet the artist at the Ship of Fools

    Printmaking at the Ship of Fools Summer exhibition I am delighted to have been given the opportunity to show some of my recent printmaking work alongside many other talented artists from Orkney and elsewhere at the 2025 Summer exhibition at the Ship of Fools gallery on Bridge Street in Kirkwall. The exhibition preview is on…

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    Martin Laird
    Invitation to the preview opening of the Ship of Fools Summer 2025 exhibition, featuring work by Martin Laird and other artists associated with Orkney. Friday 9th of May 2025, 5pm-7pm, Ship of Fools Gallery, Bridge Street, Kirkwall, Orkney.

  • Blackening

    I Once Loved A Lass (Orkney Blackening) The following images are video still-frames showing Orcadian weddings and blackenings taking place around the Merkit Cross and St Magnus Cathedral on Broad Street in Kirkwall. These events feature in a forthcoming music video produced for Sikkersnapper – an arrangement of the ancient ballad I Once Loved A…

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    Martin Laird
    Sikkersnapper - I Once Loved A Lass (Orkney Blackening) music video still-frame showing wedding guests entering St Magnus Cathedral. One man in a suit strides out of the shot.

  • Cartoon – the peerie folk

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    This cartoon was created for The Orkney News column in the May 2018 edition of iScot magazine. The theme is music, and the article addresses the excellent standard of musical education and live performance that can be found in Orkney. In Orcadian folklore the ‘peerie,’ ‘trowie’, or fairy folk were said to dwell within ancient…

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    Martin Laird
    Pen and ink black and white cartoon showing a section through a chambered cairn. Inside small fairy folk dance to the tune of a human fiddler while a skeleton watches them. Caption reads "take care if the peerie folk ask you to play. The night may go on for a year and a day."