Art Road Trip Full Programme
Art Road Trip is a touring art studio, arriving in Huntly on Tuesday 20 August. Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the National Gallery, Art Road Trip is driving around the UK with expert facilitators who will open up the national collection through creative workshops for everyone to enjoy.
Here at Deveron Projects, we have worked closely with the National Gallery and artist-in-residence Natasha Ruwona to develop a full programme exploring land and landscape, which includes new artists' walks by Natasha and Fi Thomson, collaborations with local groups, a town-wide schools exhibition and critical events that will build connections between the National Gallery's collections and Huntly, as it is now and what it might be like in the future.
Please click through to each event for further information, including booking links and accessibility guides. For any questions relating to the Art Road Trip programme, please email info@deveron-projects.com, phone 01466 794494 or pop by our office in the Brander Building (Huntly Library).
Check out our events page for a digestible overview, or pick up a printed programme at the Square Deal hub, or from the Deveron Projects' offices. The printed programme is also available online here.
Tuesday 20 August
Art Road Trip: Opening Event | 6:30-8pm, Square Deal
Join us to celebrate the launch of Art Road Trip in Huntly! Come along and get involved as we kick off the jam packed programme with celebratory speeches, pizza and drinks. Take a wander around a town-wide exhibition of children's artworks created as part of the programme, and get involved with the fun creative activities in the Square Deal hub.
Wednesday 21 August
Art Road Trip: Hub drop-in | 10am - 5pm, Square Deal
From 10am - 1pm, pop by Square Deal community hub for drop-in creative activities, including collage, drawing, painting, projection and collaborative installations. From 1pm, drop by to see the 'exhibition of the day', pick up a map for the schools' exhibition and find out what's going on in the rest of the programme.
Art Road Trip x Huntly Youth Group | 3:45 - 5:15pm, Linden Centre
Art Road Trip, the National Gallery's travelling art studio, will be visiting Huntly Youth Group! Young people aged 13-18 are invited to come along and get involved with a fun, active and experimental drawing workshop, that will spill out off the paper onto floors and walls
Skyscapes - Light and Time | 6-8pm, Square Deal
Inspired by the paintings in the National Gallery collections, this workshop will consider the changing nature of the skyscape. How does the movement of clouds in the sky affect the light in and on the landscape and our relationship with it? How have artists used the clouds to evoke a sense of the movement and the passage of time? Led by the National Gallery facilitators, in this workshop we will make drawings of the sky using experimental mark making techniques, before learning how to use these to make gelli prints.
Thursday 22 August
Schools Takeovers | 'til 2:30pm, Square Deal
Art Road Trip hub will be taken over by local primary schools who will be exploring their town-wide exhibition through creative foraging walks.
Art Road Trip: Hub drop-in | 2:30-5pm, Square Deal
Drop by to see the 'exhibition of the day', pick up a map for the schools' exhibition and find out what's going on in the rest of the programme.
The Cornfield Expanded - Growing Cereals around Huntly | 7-8:30pm, Square Deal
National Gallery facilitators and local farmer and miller Sarah Morbey join forces for a lively talk exploring how farming is represented in this famous painting by John Constable, and the reality of farming here and now in the North-East of Scotland.
Friday 23 August
Schools Takeovers | 'til 2:30pm, Square Deal
Art Road Trip hub will be taken over by local primary schools who will be exploring their town-wide exhibition through creative foraging walks.
Friday Lunch with artists' talk by Natasha Ruwona | 1-2pm, Square Deal
Come along for this special Friday Lunch, and hear from Natasha Ruwona, current artist-in-residence on our Art Road Trip programme, who will talk about her work and how it connects to the Art Road Trip programme.
Saturday 24 August
Art Road Trip: Hub drop-in | 10am - 5pm, Square Deal
Pop by Square Deal community hub between 1-12:30pm for drop-in creative activities, including collage, drawing, painting, projection and collaborative installations. From 12:30pm, drop by to see the 'exhibition of the day', pick up a map for the schools' exhibition and find out what's going on in the rest of the programme.
Experiments in Time | 11am - 2pm, walk and picnic lunch
Join artist-in-residence Natasha Ruwona for a walk in time, following water and its timeless memory. Read more about the walks programme here.
The Materials Behind the Paintings | 2-4pm, Square Deal
Explore how paintings were made before tubes of paint were invented! In this workshop you will learn how to make your own paint using eggs and pigments. You will also learn about the history of pigments and experiment with different natural and synthetic pigments. This workshop is experimental and the Art Road Trip team will guide you through different explorative mark making processes with your newly made paint.
Film Night | 7-8:30pm, Square Deal
Join us for a relaxed and informal film night, as artist-in-residence Natasha Ruwona presents a series of artists’ short films that tell stories of different landscapes and our relationships with them.
Sunday 25 August
Art Road Trip x Huntly Queer Book Club | 11:30-1pm, Square Deal
Join this special meet-up of Huntly Queer Book Club, in connection with Art Road Trip. This month, we will be discussing Ursula Le Guin's popular science-fiction novel, The Left Hand of Darkness, followed by lunch.
Meditations on the Left Hand of Darkness | 1-3pm, walk
Journey into personal futures and memories of a place to transform somewhere familiar into a new world, with artist Fi Thomson. Read more about the walks programme here.
Wednesday 28 August
Art Road Trip: Hub drop-in | 10am - 1pm, Square Deal
Pop by Square Deal community hub for the exhibition of the day, and drop-in creative activities, including collage, drawing, painting, projection and collaborative installations. Contribute to our collective landscape and find out what's going on in the rest of the programme.
Art Road Trip: After School Drop-in | 3:45-5pm, Square Deal
Are you a teenager who likes art? Drop by the Art Road Trip hub after school to get involved with a fun, creative workshop exploring drawing and line making to push the boundaries of what drawing can be! Chat with artists and learn about the National Gallery painting collection and how it can still be relevant to artists just starting out on their creative journey today.
Art Road Trip x Artists' Social | 6:30-8pm, Square Deal
To mark the National Gallery visiting Huntly, this Artists' Social will delve into the ways that collections are used in contemporary practice. What can these paintings offer artists practicing today? How can they be understood and used to inform the creation of new artworks, within our current contexts?
Thursday 29 August
Schools Takeovers | 'til 2:30pm, Square Deal
Art Road Trip hub will be taken over by local primary schools who will be exploring their town-wide exhibition through creative foraging walks.
Art Road Trip: Hub drop-in | 2:30-5pm, Square Deal
Drop by to see the 'exhibition of the day', pick up a map for the schools' exhibition and find out what's going on in the rest of the programme.
The Cornfield Expanded: Life in Huntly in the early 1800s | 7 - 8:30pm, Square Deal
In this talk, National Gallery facilitators and local history enthusiast Ron Brander will join forces for a lively discussion, building from this painting to explore representations and histories of life in and around Huntly around the time of the painting's completion (1826).
Friday 30 August
Schools Takeovers | 'til 2:30pm, Square Deal
Art Road Trip hub will be taken over by local primary schools who will be exploring their town-wide exhibition through creative foraging walks.
Saturday 31 August
Art Road Trip: Looking and Drawing at Deveron Park | 11am - 1:30pm, Nordic Centre Car Park
Drop by the Deveron Park at the Nordic Centre Car Park for a morning of family friendly drop-in activities exploring how we connect with the natural world. Learn how artists in the National Gallery collection would start to look at and frame landscapes using mirrors and acetate, and have a go to make your own drawings of the River Deveron and Deveron Park.
White Wood Walk | 2-5:30pm, walk
To conclude our Art Road Trip programme, join us on a walk up to the White Wood, to celebrate a significant artwork in our local landscape. When we get there, we will get involved with caring for and maintaining the woodland, making new paths and recording the occasion and the woodland through experimental plein air drawings and sketches. Each activity is optional - you are also welcome to sit and have a cuppa!
Art Road Trip x Tin Hut Sessions | 6:30 - 8:30pm, Square Deal
A celebration of all things land and landscape through music. Come along for a relaxed evening of live folk music, sharing stories and lore from Huntly and the surrounding areas with local musicians. Bring an instrument and enjoy a picnic dinner.
Throughout
Art Road Trip: Schools' Exhibition | Tuesday 21 August - Saturday 7 September, across the town
Pick up a map at the Square Deal hub and follow the trail to see over 150 artworks by children in Huntly and the surrounding area, created as part of the National Gallery's flagship education programme, Take One Picture.