Dozens of red pom-poms and ribbons were put up around Inverness city centre yesterday as part of a six-day art project to celebrate the completion of the multimillion-pound Streetscape scheme and the new open spaces created.
The exercise has seen the streets of the city centre transformed.
The project, called Re-Imagining the Centre, will see sculptures, street art, projections and music brought to the city centre by acclaimed artists from around the UK.
Organisers hope the project will encourage visitors and shoppers to the Old Town area of the city.
Yesterday, two Inverness-based artists, Annie Marrs and Jennifer Cantrall, took their “guerrilla-style knitting”, known as Yarnbombing, to the streets.
The duo, known as Sundogs, spent hours putting their knitting up at various locations, including the Three Virtues birch trees on Church Street, a challenging task in the gale-force winds.
Today, graffiti artists DUFI will begin transforming parts of Baron Taylor’s Street with their work.
The event is being led by Inverness Old Town Arts (Iota) project, lead artist Matt Baker and project director Susan Christie.
Iota held its first event on September 9, 2006, when 14 Highland artists took over Church Street with 12 hours of art installations.
Since then, as the city centre changed, Iota has developed a mix of permanent and temporary art projects
Yesterday, Ms Christie said she hoped a similar event could be run on a regular basis.
She said: “We want to know if there is enough appetite for this. We want to see how people react to it and if they think it could be held, say, yearly or every couple of years.
“We want people to really interact with the Old Town and really relish it.”
Events will take place until Sunday, September 13.
For more information about the various events visit www.invernessoldtown art.co.uk or go to the office in the Victorian Market.