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A mobile art exhibit is set to return to the Highlands with its latest exhibition ‘A Bonnie Way: Unravelling the seduction of the countryside’.
Contemporary art gallery in a bus, Travelling Gallery, will be taking its free display to Helmsdale, Inverness and Newtonmore next week.
The exhibition is a partnership with Hospitalfield Arts in Arbroath and presents the work of artists Bobbi Cameron, Ufuoma Essi and Sarah Rose – from Hospitalfield’s Residencies programme – who all explore their experiences of life and conversations in rural and semi-rural places.
Travelling Gallery will be visiting the following venues, in partnership with Timespan and High Life Highland:
· Monday 29th April: Helmsdale Harbour, 10am – 4pm
· Tuesday 30th April: Highland Archive Centre, Inverness, 12 – 4pm
· Wednesday 1st May: Highland Folk Museum, Newtonmore, 12 – 4pm
Featuring sculpture, moving image and sound, each artist brings a different approach and experience touching upon themes such as hidden histories, pictorial representation, the more-than human, energy networks, traditional music, memory, who is included/excluded, industrial landscapes and the urgently felt impacts of the climate crisis.
The artworks will be accompanied by an index of community-based publications, connecting their questions, manifestos, and propositions of people in rural places from across Scotland.
The title, ‘A Bonnie Way’, is chosen as a point of discussion – for all the ‘bonnie’ parts of life here as well as the elements that aren’t typically bonnie.
More information on the initiative can be found on Travelling Gallery’s website.