What is this Hepworth sculpture made of? The great British art quiz

This quiz is brought to you in collaboration with Art UK, the online home for the UK’s public art collections, showing art from over 3,000 venues and by 45,000 artists. Each day, a different collection on Art UK will set the questions.

Today, our questions are set by the Pier Arts Centre, Orkney. The centre, in Stromness, is home to a fine-art collection donated by the author, peace activist and philanthropist Margaret Gardiner (1904–2005).

The collection of over 200 works includes works by major 20th-century artists Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson, contemporary artists including Sean Scully and Eva Rothschild, and Orcadian artists Sylvia Wishart and Stanley Cursiter.

You can see art from the Pier Arts Centre on Art UK here. Find out more on the Pier Arts Centre website here.

In what year was the Pier Arts Centre in Stromness founded?

Cornish fisherman Alfred Wallis only began painting in 1922, when he was in his 60s, after the death of his wife. Which famous artist, along with Christopher Wood, first “discovered” him while he was painting in St Ives?

What material is the sculpture Large and Small Form (1934), by Barbara Hepworth, made of?

Scottish artist Ross Sinclair had a solo exhibition at the Pier Arts Centre in 1998 called A Dream of the Hamnavoe Free State. Where is Hamnavoe?

From the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness (Blue) is by which Scottish artist?

What did a friend of Orcadian artist Sylvia Wishart draw on her window, prompting her to create a whole series of work including that same emblem?

A bird In the 1970s, Sylvia Wishart, Orcadian artist and friend of Margaret Gardiner, lived and worked in the building that now houses the Pier Arts Centre collection; her 1980s work Birds, Pears and Ship in a Bottle is pictured above. Wishart, along with artist, local historian and writer Bryce Wilson, were among Gardiner’s many Orcadian friends who played an important role in the inception of the centre. Image: Birds, Pears and Ship in a Bottle, c.1980s, Sylvia Wishart (1936-2008), The artist’s estate, The Pier Arts Centre

How did artist Roger Ackling make the marks in the wood in his artworks?

Of which famous Orcadian poet is this bust by artist Ian Scott?

You got…

A creditable if not mind-blowing result.

A valiant effort, but – like the Orkneys – not that hot.

Congratulations – you’re without peer. Or indeed pier.

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