Martin S. Laird

Artist | film-maker | animator

Tag: painting

  • Portraits for Peace

    Fair Saturday 2025 – Portraits for Peace For the 2025 Fair Saturday event at Northlight gallery in Stromness I will be contributing to a joint exhibition called Portraits For Peace. This event takes place in association with The Orkney News and has received funding from The Arts and Humanities Council via the University of Glasgow.…

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    Poster for the 2025 Fair Saturday exhibition at Northlight Gallery in Stromness in association with the Orkney News, Glasgow University and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The poster shows a blank canvas on an easel which has been desaturated and inverted so that the image is largely white. Exhibition runs 1am-pm daily except Sundays and Mondays from 29th November 2025. Featuring work by Carolyn Dixon, Robinson RR, Susy Shearer and Bryce Wilson

  • Dimittit In Artes premiere

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    Vernon Bradley: Dimittit In Artes – premiere A new film by Martin Laird about fellow Orkney-based artist Vernon Bradley will premiere on Friday the 7th of June 2024 in Stromness Community Centre, at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £5 and can be purchased on the door. The film is entitled Dimittit In Artes, which is part of…

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    Vernon Bradley: Dimittit In Artes, a film by Martin Laird. Vernon faces off against a skull-faced psychopomp. Both are wearing berets. Desaturated except for the colour red which dominates a painting by Vernon Bradley in the background. Film premiere poster. Friday 7th June 2024, Stromness Community Centre, 7.30pm. Tickets £5 on the door. One person will win one of Vernon's paintings.

  • Headhunter (antisyzygy)

    Headhunter (antisyzygy) Headhunter (antisyzygy) is a painting inspired by the extreme survival story of Orcadian Jack Renton, who is sometimes called “The White Headhunter.” Renton was a 19th Century seaman from Stromness who was ‘Shanghai’d’ (abducted) and eventually marooned in the South Seas, drifting for thousands of miles with a few other deserters from the…

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    Martin Laird
    Headhunter (antisyzygy) - a headhunter gazes into water and points a spear threateningly at his own reflection. In the background are dafffodils and trees. Rough impasto acrylic paint texture.

  • HMS Pheasant 1917

    The Orkney News team are seeking funding to make a documentary focussing on the untold story of the crew of HMS Pheasant, lost during WW1 off Orkney.

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    Martin Laird
    HMS Pheasant 1917 crowdfunder ad. Visit www.crowdfunder.co.uk/hms-pheasant-1917 for more information and to donate