Our Contemporary Visual Arts Programme runs two major exhibitions a year, in Summer and Autumn, and an Emerging Artist Residency focusing on socially engaged practice in the Winter months. Find out What's On, learn more about our recent exhibitions or discover what we have in store here.
Our 2024 Visual Arts programme began with an exhibition by Scottish-Barbadian artist Alberta Whittle, running June - August 2024. The second exhibition of the year is by Irish cross-media artist Oisín Byrne, running until October 2024. Both exhibitions continue to expand the ways in which the Contemporary Visual Art programme at Mount Stuart invigorates and responds to the historic house and grounds.
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Current Exhibitions
Oisín Byrne: smell the book
Viewable by appointment until 29th November
Oisín Byrne's exhibition smell the book, their first in Scotland, utilises painting, song and film inspired by the Gaelic and Irish books and pamphlets in Mount Stuart's archive.
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Dylan Esposito: Emerging Artist Residency
Our Emerging Artist in Residence for 2023, Dylan Esposito, has been developing his work with the local autistic and neurodivergent community. Focusing on the experience of place through touch, he has been learning more about other people’s sensory experiences while sharing his own practice with them. Dylan's work will be unveiled in soon.
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An Assembly or a ting
Alberta Whittle's work An Assembly or a ting will remain on site in our grounds until June 2026. Originally part of the exhibition Under the skin of the ocean, the thing urges us up wild the bothy is situated adjacent to the front lawn and provides shelter and welcome, as well as speaking to wider themes of community, property and climate emergency.
The artist's invitation to the wider public is to enjoy the space for respite and relaxation while perusing reading and drawing materials and potentially meeting new people. Mount Stuart Trust welcomes proposals from community groups and individuals for creative and well-being activities to take place inside and to date, group visits, family creative activities and yoga practice have all occurred.
Get in touch via contactus@mountstuart.com with any enquiries.
Past Exhibitions
Visual Arts Archive
Our Contemporary Visual Arts Programme was established in 2001. Discover the artists we've worked with over the years.
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