Brae Editions are committed to the gradual development of its list of titles, and this is expected mostly to be on the basis of invitation, but more commonly from projects initiated by themselves. Historically, Brae Editions has focused its interest on the landscape of Orkney, where the imprint originated: these elements are likely to remain important as it continues to grow. The imprint began in
Orkney in 2007, as a development from Porteous Brae Gallery, an exhibition space that Alistair Peebles opened that summer in Stromness. Further information about the gallery and its eventual transformation into a publishing enterprise will appear elsewhere. Porteous Brae Gallery ran in its original location for two summers in succession. By 2009 it had moved elsewhere in the town and there, although for a time gallery projects were undertaken, the imprint properly began. While none of our published work has an absolute priority in our affections, the Brae’s most notable public success to date has been with the collaboration, Ecstatics: a language of birds, by Laura Drever and Lesley Harrison, which won the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award for pamphlet publishing in Scotland in 2012. The next publication will be [Cover] by Amy Todman, due out in spring 2014.
