posted by Louise Kirby, YMI Coordinator, Schools & Learning
Opportunity for Angus primary and secondary schools to have the Travelling visit their school, please see full detail, costs and contact details for booking.
Travelling Gallery Autumn 2019 Exhibition
Touring August to December 2019
Alec Finlay
Day of Access
Travelling Gallery is pleased to be working with Scottish artist and poet Alec Finlay for its Autumn 2019 exhibition and tour. Entitled Day of Access, the theme and focus of the exhibition is disabled access to nature – drawings, sculpture, photography and poetry which all explore the effects disability has on mobility and access to nature.
Launching as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival in August, Day of Access will tour Scotland until December – book your place now.
Alec Finlay is declaring a national Day of Access, to enable access to wild land for the disabled and marginalised. The pilot Day of Access will take place in June 2019 at Schiehallion with Finlay taking on the role of activist and encouraging estates to open their tracks for people who can no longer get into the hills. The pilot Day of Access will be documented by a young photographer and the resulting images will appear in the Travelling Gallery.
Alongside documentation from the Day of Access, Finlay will exhibit his own drawings, sculpture and poems. There will also be a selection of work from invited artists and poets, including Ken Cockburn and Hannah Devereux, making the exhibition hugely collaborative.
The exhibition will benefit a diverse audience of all ages. Alec Finlay and his collaborators have developed a series of workshops to complement Travelling Gallery’s visit and provide further discussion around disability.
Counterpane (blanket landscape), Alec Finlay, photography Hannah Devereux, 2016
Travelling Gallery was established in 1978 and continues to bring contemporary art to communities throughout Scotland. Its dual focus is to create highly engaging exhibitions and to provide a unique platform for arts education. Curated with the Travelling Gallery’s diverse audience in mind, the exhibitions display innovative artistic practices, representative of the international art scene. Travelling Gallery is a ‘not for profit’ organisation, regularly funded by Creative Scotland and supported by City of Edinburgh Council.
The cost of hire of Travelling Gallery for one 5-day week is £800 + VAT. The week could run either Monday to Friday or Tuesday to Saturday. The gallery will be able to travel to a different venue each day, which could be a school, community or public venue. Alternatively, depending on geography, we can offer 1 day hires at a rate of £160 +VAT.
At schools, pupils can visit the gallery in groups of up to 20 pupils for about 30 minutes at a time and Travelling Gallery staff will give a presentation to each group about the exhibition. A learning resource pack will also be available for teachers before the visit.
Vicky Konieczny | Travelling Gallery Assistant | Culture Services |Place |City of Edinburgh Council|City Art Centre, 2 Market Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1DE |0131 529 3930 |vicky.konieczny@edinburgh.gov.uk |travellinggallery@edinburgh.gov.uk | www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk | www.travellinggallery.com
