The Street Uncoiled presented a series of individual works in celebration of Per Mare, the 200th anniversary of Stromness becoming a Burgh of Barony. Our title, as well as our inspiration, is taken from a George Mackay Brown poem, which was used as our point of departure to create individual responses to the town of Stromness.

Following the success of our inaugural exhibition at the Orkney Museum, Móti gained a number of new members for The Street Uncoiled, forming the beginnings of thewelcoming and vibrant Collective present today.

The streets uncoiled like a sailor’s rope from North to South

And closes swarmed up the side of the hill

Among garden and clouds,

And closes stepped down to the harbour

And the nets and whitemaas.

Extract from ‘Per Mare’ – a pageant written by George Mackay Brown, performed in

Stromness in 1967