This area is the gateway into Timespan’s arts and heritage projects taking place right now!

Museum Without Walls

The development of the Strath of Kildonan Clearances Trail is an exciting and interesting prospect that will utilise the latest digital technologies, as well as more traditional methods. The project will engage with communities in the local area and visitors from all over the world. In 2013, there will be an influx of people coming to this area to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the instigation of the large scale removal of the native population in the Strath of Kildonan by the landowners and the establishment of large sheep and arable farms. For many visitors, who have ancestors who were involved in the Clearances, it will be like going home! Timespan and the local community will be ready to celebrate the culture of the area, both past and present, i.e. linking the stories of the past with our lives today. To find out all the latest news visit the project blog at http://www.timespan.org.uk/category/kildonan-clearances-2013/

Art Across Sutherland

Is a residency programme to creatively develop engagement in contemporary art with groups in Helmsdale and Sutherland using techniques developed from local, historical and geological roots. It is funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and by the Eurpoean Community Highland Leader 2007-2013 Programme. The project helps support our exhibition programme from June 2010 – June 2012 and includes 4 residencies where the theme is ‘bridging’ arts and local area/community interests. The first two residencies have now taken place – they were led by artists Julia Douglas and Jo Roberts and you can follow their blogs here. This programme also supports Corin Sworn’s and Graham Fagen’s proposals which are happening now!

Graham Fagen: Artist in Residence at Timespan from January – August 2011. Graham will be making and exhibiting an HD video work as part of his residency at Timespan. The subject of the video work will be the sea, the river and the land that form Helmsdale and the Strath of Kildonan and the life that this place has formed; the gold that comes from its geology, the living that is made from its land and its animals; the legacy of its past and the possibility of its future. The artwork he produces will be specific to place, while reflecting universal needs of identity and belonging, of a relationship with nature and with each other. Graham will also be working members of our community on producing, editing and exhibiting their own short film. Each participant will make a short video work in response to their relationship to this place. Read more about Graham and follow his blog here!

Corin Sworn: Artist in Residence at Timespan from June – October 2011. Corin is still in the research and development phase of her proposal, but full details of her project will be announced here in June.

 

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