We are excited to partner once more with Travelling Gallery , an art gallery in a bus bringing exciting contemporary exhibitions across Scotland since 1978.

Travelling Gallery presents a free show of new collaborative works by artists Rachel McBrinn and Alison Scott, exploring the recent decommissioning of the glasshouses at St Andrews Botanic Gardens and their research into the histories of these structures. The exhibition follows a period of research and development at St Andrews Botanic Garden where they have been artists in residence. The show includes moving-image, writing, and with a focus on archival materials.

In the exhibition the artists present the glasshouse as a structure linked to power and privilege. The exhibition is centered around their film, After Glass that weaves together both archival and found footage with their own research imagery to unpick the different ways in which glasshouses have been employed to display, preserve, contain & eradicate particular species and narratives.

Travelling Gallery bus will be parked at Helmsdale harbour on May 2nd from 10am-4pm. The exhibition is free

Artist’s Biographies

Rachel McBrinn is an Edinburgh based artist whose work often emerges from long term site-responsive and archival research. With a critical lens on conservation, maintenance, and archiving practices, recent work has formed around themes of land management, town planning, and urban and rural ecologies. Between 2021-23 she was artist in residence with Rhubaba, where she developed the film ‘Are you going my way?’ which centred around her hometown Livingston, one of Scotland’s post-war New Towns. Her work has been shown recently at Fruitmarket Gallery, Market Gallery, CCA Glasgow, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Cove Park, and the Oban Phoenix Cinema.

Alison Scott is an artist, writer and art-worker based in Arbroath. Her work is research-led and forefronts collaborative approaches, often working with other artists on projects. Alison’s work tends to be context-responsive, working between writing, performance, and audio/video. Recent projects—drawing on encounters with weather, oil and land—engage with aspects of environmental politics on an everyday, situated level. Alison is a practice-based PhD student at Gray’s School of Art, focussing on art, forestry and the commons, and is a member of the Board at Generator Projects. Her work has recently happened at Collective, Cove Park, Fertile Ground, Hospitalfield, the collective ‘open-weather’ and Radiophrenia.