The Travelling Gallery will be visiting Skye and Lochalsh this week, as part of its Autumn tour of Scotland which runs until December. Its latest exhibition, ‘Waste Management’ is an intriguing collaboration between two Scottish contemporary artists – Jonathan Owen (Edinburgh) and Charlie Hammond (Glasgow). Visitors will be able to see a series of new collaborative screen-prints made especially for the exhibition as well as sculptures by the artists.

The Travelling Gallery is a custom-built, mobile, contemporary art space supported by Creative Scotland to bring world class visual art to schools and communities throughout Scotland. The gallery will be open to the public on Saturday 10th September 2011 at Portree Bay from 11am to 5.30pm, as part of the Bàta Brèagha / Bonnie Boat, Year of Scotland’s Islands Flagship Event, and will be visiting the following schools:

• Tues 6th Sept AM – Auchtertyre Primary School
• Tuesday 6th Sept PM – Plockton High School
• Wed 7th Sept AM – Kilmuir Primary School
• Wed 7th Sept PM – Staffin Primary School
• Thurs 8th Sept AM – Dunvegan Primary School
• Thurs 8th Sept PM – Struan Primary School
• Fri 9th Sept AM – Portree Primary School
• Fri 9th Sept PM – Portree High School
• Sat 10th Sept 11am – 5.30pm – Bàta Brèagha / Bonnie Boat, Portree Bay

As part of the education programme, pupils at Portree Primary School will have the chance to create their own artwork inspired by the exhibition during a workshop with artists Jonathan Owen and Charlie Hammond.

The Travelling Gallery’s visit to Skye and Lochalsh has been supported by ATLAS (www.atlasarts.org.uk). Download a programme for the Bàta Brèagha / Bonnie Boat event here: BONNIE BOAT EVENT PROGRAMME.

The gallery will then be touring to the following areas: 12-23 Sept – Highlands, 26-30 Sept – Aberdeenshire, 4-8 Oct – Perth & Kinross, 17-21 Oct – East Ayrshire, 24-28 Oct – Scottish Borders, 31 Oct-4 Nov – Dumfries & Galloway, 7-11 Nov – East Ayrshire, 28 Nov-2 Dec – Midlothian, 5-9 Dec – Edinburgh

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The Artists:

Jonathan Owen
Recent sculptural work by Jonathan Owen has seen his carving skills completely transform domestic objects – coat stands and coat hooks from Habitat, starburst clocks and touristic ornaments have been delicately carved into whilst retaining the original structure. Jonathan Owen specialises in a kind of elegant vandalism. By reducing his subjects he delicately examines the essential qualities of an object or image, transforming their entire meaning and presenting the viewer with the curiously unexpected. Jonathan’s installation will also include a site specific work in the window space of the Travelling Gallery.

Jonathan Owen has exhibited widely within the UK and also recently in Melbourne and Warsaw. His work is included in collections of the Henry Moore Foundation, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, the City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Paisley Art Gallery. He lives and works in Edinburgh.

Charlie Hammond
In Charlie Hammond’s paintings and sculptures a dysfunctional suburbia of broken wheelie bins, ring roads, and exploding vehicles provide the satirical backdrop to a disturbingly familiar world in which progress is measured out by polite discussion on radio 4. Hammond’s universe subjects the advocates of improvement schemes to a cartoon buffoonery, rendering them both ridiculous and pitiful. His recent paintings depict their sweaty armpits as a faux-monumental testimony to their nervous, unending labour.

Since graduating from Glasgow School of Art in 2002 Charlie Hammond has exhibited his paintings and sculptures in many significant galleries world-wide including one-person shows in Miami Beach, Los Angeles and New York. He is represented by Sorcha Dallas Gallery and lives and works in Glasgow.

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