Where We Stand – Wick

1 May – 8 May 2025

Thursday * 18:00 – 20:00

Friday – Tuesday (2nd – 6th) * 11:00 – 16:00

Thursday (8th) * 11:00 – 16:00

An exhibition about Scotland’s community ownership journey over the last 100 years… and where we go next. 

This exhibition originally toured across parts of Scotland in Summer 2024 in partnership with the Travelling Gallery and was seen by close to 2,500 people. We are delighted to be able to take this back out 10 venues around Scotland in Spring / Summer 2025.

The exhibition acknowledges and celebrates the efforts, ingenuity and passion of all those involved in community ownership over the last century. The exhibition shines light on the tremendous collective effort of people across Scotland working together to make a better future for themselves and the nation; empowering communities and the land they live on, the land which they are custodians of.

Each work is rooted in the experience and knowledge of people deeply involved in community ownership and then honed and shaped by artists embedded in those places. Each process of creation was about reciprocity, sharing skills and collective vision.

It is important to contextualise these contemporary artworks within the larger land reform movement of Scotland, so woven through the exhibition are the milestones and accomplishments of the last one hundred years, and an invitation to look forward towards what the next one hundred years might hold.

Everything traces back to people and place; the stories of how people live, how they create a sense of belonging and how we live in harmony with the rest of the natural world. These artworks are about tracing the roots of this social movement to see what has flourished already, and to wonder what blossoms are still to come.