Travelling Gallery visits Orkney Islands 25th – 28th April 2023

Travelling Gallery, a contemporary art gallery in a bus, will arrive in Orkney this April, with the exhibition To avoid falling apart by Emmie McLuskey and Janice Parker. This two-person art exhibition explores and illuminates our human capacity for mutuality, connection and interdependence through movement, language, and film.

Together 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 we live together and how we experience our moving bodies in society; asking what might happen if we led with our movement and our ordinary/extraordinary human bodies.

The Travelling Gallery will be visiting the following venues across Orkney in partnership with Orkney Islands Council and with support from NorthLink ferries:

Tuesday 25^th April – Dounby Primary School

Wednesday 26^th April – Sanday Junior High School

Thursday 27^th April – Stromness Academy

Friday 28^th April – Broad Street Car Park, Kirkwall KW15 1NX Open 10am – 4pm – free and everyone welcome

Travelling Gallery will be touring throughout eastern Scotland from March to May 2023:

16^th – 18^th March 2023, Aberdeen in partnership with Aberdeen City Council

23^rd – 25^th March 2023, Angus in partnership with Hospitalfield

30^th March – 1^st April 2023, Aberdeenshire in partnership with Live Life Aberdeenshire
4^th – 6^th April 2023, Dundee in partnership with DCA

19^th – 22^nd April 2023, Highlands in partnership with TimeSpan and Thurso Community Development Trust

25^th – 28^th April 2023, Orkney in partnership with Orkney Islands Council

3^rd – 5^th May 2023 Perth & Kinross in partnership with Perth & Kinross Council

Visit Travelling Gallery website for more details https://travellinggallery.com/tour-dates/