Spring 2009 - Finger Buffet exhibition
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.
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Media Contact:
Gareth Jones T 0131 529 4489
or
Vicky Konieczny, T 0131 529 3930
NOTES TO EDITORS:
1)The Travelling Gallery receives an average of 18,186 visitors per year.
2)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.
3)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.
4)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.
5)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.
6)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.
7)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
8)Images are available. Please email travellinggallery@edinburgh.gov.uk or call 0131 529 3930.