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 Preview: Friday 1st March at 5:30 – 7:30pm,
City Art Centre, 2 Market Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1DE.
Refreshments provided.
This curiously named Travelling Gallery exhibition is a busy group show of established and emerging artists from both home and abroad. Working in a broad range of media including drawing, animation, film, sculpture, photography, performance, collage and painting, the exhibition will include artists who use a playful, childlike, feel good essence in their work, sometimes hiding darker depths but more often making us smile. The simplicity and low-tech nature of many of the artworks disguises sometimes complex processes and skills but also makes the exhibition instantly accessible to audiences of all ages.
Turquoise Heid includes artists Matthew Barnes, Olivia Bee, Yeodoo Jung, Peter McDonald, Alex Millar, Jock Mooney, Kim Rugg, Yukako Sakakura and David Shrigley.
The exhibition will tour in the Travelling Gallery until June 2013 starting off in Edinburgh.
Monday 4th March – High Street, Portobello (In front of Bank of Scotland) – 10am – 5pm
Tuesday 5th March – Oxgangs Library, 343 Oxgangs Road North – 10am – 4pm
Wednesday 6th March – Dunbar Primary School
Thursday 7th March – The Grassmarket, Edinburgh 11am – 5pm
Friday 8th March – The Grassmarket, Edinburgh 11am – 5pm
It will then head off to schools and venues in Angus, South Ayrshire, West Lothian, Falkirk, Clackmannanshire, Stirling, Aberdeenshire, Highlands, Perth and Kinross.
See www.travellinggallery.com for tour details.
Also, look out for artist Ellie Harrison’s Early Warning Sign which we are hosting in 2013 and which will sit outside the Travelling Gallery at every location we visit throughout Scotland. Utilising the brazen marketing techniques of capitalism, the sign attempts to grab the attention of passers-by: to remind them of the consequences of excessive consumption and to force climate change back on the agenda. The harder the wind blows, the faster they go!
www.ellieharrison.com
Travelling Gallery exhibitions are supported by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation. |
