An intermedia art and music exhibition tracing a river’s journey through animated paintings, an original score, and visual art. A immersive, sensory experience. The highlight performance is on the evening of 7 January, beginning at 7pm.

Rivers is an intermedia exhibition that traces the powerful, transformative journey of rivers through music, animation, and visual art. The work unfolds as a narrative that reflects both the changing nature of rivers and their role in shaping communities. Across five Acts, the river’s story emerges: from youthful beginnings, life-giving presence to wild rapids and mature serenity. Animated paintings and an original score for piano and symphony flow together to create a story, an immersive sensory experience, each phase echoing the rhythms and transformations of the river. The final Act culminates in a live piano performance accompanied by recorded footage of a local river, grounding the work in the cultural and historical fabric of the region. Complementing these moving images with music, oil paintings and prints of handmade digital collages extend the journey into a more tactile form, bridging the flow of water with the stillness of paint. Rivers is an invitation to reflect on how waterways shape landscapes, sustain life, and carry the stories of the communities that grow along their banks.

Krzysztof Augustyn is a performing artist, pianist, composer, and interdisciplinary creator with a BA and MA from the University of Salford. His artistic journey spans across the UK and Europe, where he has exhibited works that merge music, visual art, and storytelling into immersive experiences. Before and during his studies, Krzysztof developed a strong practice in directing and conceptual creation, skills that continue to shape his multidisciplinary approach. His work often explores environmental and social themes, weaving together sound, image, and narrative to engage audiences in both thought and emotion.

An intermedia art and music exhibition tracing a river’s journey through animated paintings, an original score, and visual art. A immersive, sensory experience. The highlight performance is on the evening of 15 January, beginning at 7pm.

Rivers is an intermedia exhibition that traces the powerful, transformative journey of rivers through music, animation, and visual art. The work unfolds as a narrative that reflects both the changing nature of rivers and their role in shaping communities. Across five Acts, the river’s story emerges: from youthful beginnings, life-giving presence to wild rapids and mature serenity. Animated paintings and an original score for piano and symphony flow together to create a story, an immersive sensory experience, each phase echoing the rhythms and transformations of the river. The final Act culminates in a live piano performance accompanied by recorded footage of a local river, grounding the work in the cultural and historical fabric of the region. Complementing these moving images with music, oil paintings and prints of handmade digital collages extend the journey into a more tactile form, bridging the flow of water with the stillness of paint. Rivers is an invitation to reflect on how waterways shape landscapes, sustain life, and carry the stories of the communities that grow along their banks.

Krzysztof Augustyn is a performing artist, pianist, composer, and interdisciplinary creator with a BA and MA from the University of Salford. His artistic journey spans across the UK and Europe, where he has exhibited works that merge music, visual art, and storytelling into immersive experiences. Before and during his studies, Krzysztof developed a strong practice in directing and conceptual creation, skills that continue to shape his multidisciplinary approach. His work often explores environmental and social themes, weaving together sound, image, and narrative to engage audiences in both thought and emotion.

Join us in the capital of the Highlands this December for our Shop the Halls event, which will feature open studios, exhibitions, a festive market and more.

The entire building will be getting in the festive spirit, with the artist community based there opening their doors to invite visitors in for a chat and a browse of their creative spaces, plus the two stunning halls will be transformed for you to feast your eyes and fill your pockets with all different kinds of art and craft.

Participating artists that are opening their studio doors are: Marina Gjertsen, Bebecca Bolland, Fiona Matheson, Ross Mcateer, Susan McCreevy, Evija Laivina, the Highland School of Jewellery, Clare Blois, Erika Vado, Ali Mackay,Jacqueline Mackenzie, Gael Hillyard, Velvet Purls, Isle of Riso, Yelena Visemirska and Carolyn Johnston. Please note, some artists will also be hosting stalls at the festive market in the Gym Hall.

For the festive market, we will have the following stall holders: Ailsa Robertson, Leila Ross, Martin Irish, Jenny Hepburn, Cecilia Mann, Alicia MacInnes, Ali Mackay, Crunch Willoughby, Louise Scott, Inverness Openarts, Holly Meiklejohn, Inverness Darkroom, Jupiter’s Grace, Andrea Johnson, LaKrista Morton, Spicy Chameleon, Steve Plowman, Zoe Yan, Geraldine Sekan, Tim Palmer, the Art Society of Inverness, Fodderty Woodturning, Beti Bricelj, Geddes Designs and Susan Plowman.

Thank you to Alice Prentice of Isle of Riso for the design of the Shop the Halls poster.

To celebrate the launch of Poppy Nash’s SEE / AND KNOW / BOTH SIDES OF THE QUESTION, textile artist and craft expert Clare Hunter will be in conversation withwriter and co-founder of Decorating Dissidence Lottie Whalen. Clare and Lottie will discuss the secret life of textiles, exploring the ways that textile art has been used as a tool of protest and delving deeper into the stories of ‘disobedient textiles’ that inspire Poppy’s work, including Lorina Bulwer, Agnes Richter, and Marie Leib.

Join us from 6:15pm to view the exhibition, handle textiles, and have a go at stitching your own fabric square. The conversation will take place between 7-8pm, with an opportunity for audience questions. Book via Eventbrite here.

Clare Hunter has been a banner-maker, community textile artist and textile curator for over twenty years and established the community enterprise NeedleWorks in Glasgow. Her first book, Threads of Life, won the Saltire First Book Award, was a Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month and a Radio 4 Book of the Week. She published her most recent book Making Matters: in Search of Creative Wonders this year.

Lottie Whalen is a writer, researcher, and co-founder of Decorating Dissidence, a research project that explores radical histories of craft and the legacies of those histories in the work of contemporary makers. Her book Radicals and Rogues: the Women Who Made New York Modern came out in 2023 and she is currently working on a project about artist friendship.