Travelling Gallery Takes to the Road with Spring
Exhibition
Finger Buffet
28 February to 12
June 2009
The Travelling Gallery's spring exhibition
has a theme familiar to all; food and drink. The exhibition will explore both
the pleasure we get from food as well as more serious issues such as GM food,
junk food and packaging. Finger Buffet will include work by five contemporary artists: Alex Frost, Gayle Chong Kwan,
Janice McNab, Kate Owens and Mariah Skellorn.
Exhibits include photographs by Mariah
Skellorn from her series ‘convenience foods', which comment on methods of food
production and their sustainability, polymer clay sculptures based on food
packaging by Alex Frost and painting from Janice McNab's ‘chocolate box'
series. Kate Owens will show new work using dyes from fizzy drinks, and Gayle
Chong Kwan will exhibit images of utopias intricately constructed from food.
Councillor Deidre Brock, Convener of
Culture and Leisure said;
"Finger
Buffet is a unique and novel exhibition which enables young and talented
artists to, quite literally, give us plenty of food for thought".
The mobile gallery will start its tour in Edinburgh on
Saturday 28th February, where it will be open to the public from 11am
to 5pm at the City Art Centre, 2 Market Street.
The gallery will then be travelling to areas throughout Scotland,
from Ayrshire to the Highlands, until 12th June.
During the tour the gallery will visit
schools and colleges and will also be open to the public. Tour dates and venues
will be posted on the gallery website at www.travellinggallery.com
The Travelling Gallery receives an average of 18,186 visitors
per year.
- The Travelling Gallery vehicle is
built on a Scania 12metre Omni Dekka chassis, and measures 12m long, 3.6m
high and 2.5m wide. The bodywork was built by East Lancashire
Coachbuilders in Blackburn and the interior was fitted out by W
H Bence Coachworks in Yate near Bristol. The interior was designed by
Sutherland Hussey Architects. The
exterior artwork was created by Glasgow based artist Mandy McIntosh.
- The Travelling Gallery service was introduced in 1978 by the
Scottish Arts Council. In 1997 its operation was switched to the City
of Edinburgh Council, which continues to operate a national service.
The new gallery vehicle was introduced in April 2007.
- The Travelling Gallery will receive £141,400 from the Scottish
Arts Council towards the cost of foundation funding for 2008/09. This will
support the unique self-contained mobile art gallery which takes a
programme of high quality engaging exhibitions to communities throughout Scotland. The City of Edinburgh
Council support the
running of the service in kind. Other income is generated through hire
fees from other local authorities who book the Travelling Gallery to tour
their areas.
- The Travelling Gallery Education Programme aims to expand on
ideas and skills highlighted in the Travelling Gallery exhibition and
includes education packs, reference materials, worksheets, ideas for
pre-visit and follow-up work, as well as artist-led workshops.
- Embo Deli, Haddington
Place, Edinburgh
kindly supplied the finger buffet for the exhibition launch, in collaboration
with Tattie Shaws Fruit and Vegetables and Leith Walk Primary School.
- The Travelling Gallery will visit the following areas with the
‘On Edge' exhibition:
2 - 6 March - East Ayrshire
10 - 21 March - East
Dunbartonshire
23 - 27 March - East Lothian
30 March - 3 April - Stirling
4 - 9 April - Perth & Kinross
14 - 18 April - South Lanarkshire
20 - 24 April - Falkirk
27 April - 15 May - Highland
19 - 23 May - East Renfrewshire
25 May - 5 June - Dundee
8 - 12 June - Edinburgh
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