Two-person travelling art exhibition comes to Helmsdale and Thurso
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A travelling art gallery is making its way to the north Highlands this April.
Travelling Gallery, a contemporary art gallery in a bus, is taking the exhibition, "to avoid falling apart" by Emmie McLuskey and Janice Parker, on tour to both Helmsdale and Thurso.
The two-person art exhibition will explore and illuminate human capacity for mutuality, connection and interdependence through movement, language, and film.
Together, artists Emmie and Janice have developed a movement workshop in collaboration with an invited mix of friends and colleagues.
From this they will create several short films focusing on the active state of counterbalance - the physical act of two or more human bodies leaning against or leaning away from each other.
The films will invite the viewer to witness shared and reciprocal acts of support, capturing the details and nuances of these movements in the moment as they dynamically unfold between people.
Accompanying the films will be a collection of hand-written texts created by the artists in response to the workshop and the films.
Both artists bring to the Travelling Gallery their shared interest in how people live together and how they experience their moving bodies in society; asking what might happen if we led with our movement and our ordinary/extraordinary human bodies.
The Travelling Gallery will visit the following venues in Caithness and Sutherland, in partnership with Timespan, Helmsdale and Thurso Community Development Trust.
Wednesday April 19 - Helmsdale Harbour
Thursday April 20 – Helmsdale Primary School (school visits only)
Friday April 21 – Helmsdale Helmsdale
The gallery is open 10am – 4pm and is free to visit. Everyone is very welcome. After visiting Helmsdale Travelling Gallery will continue its tour throughout eastern Scotland.
March 16-18, Aberdeen in partnership with Aberdeen City Council
March 23-25, Angus in partnership with Hospitalfield
March 30 - April 1, Aberdeenshire in partnership with Live Life Aberdeenshire
April 4-6, Dundee in partnership with DCA
April 19-21, Helmsdale in partnership with TimeSpan
April 22, Thurso in partnership with Thurso Community Development Trust
April 25-28, Orkney in partnership with Orkney Islands Council
May 3-5, Perth & Kinross in partnership with Perth & Kinross Council
Visit Travelling Gallery website for more details visit travellinggallery.com/tour-dates.
