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Welcome to Timespan - a vibrant meeting place between our past and our future; linking culture, heritage, the arts, people and their ideas. After three years of enormous hard work, we are now able to show you our stunning redevelopment.

Scottish Tourist Board recommended visitor attractionTimespan is situated in the centre of Helmsdale. It comprises an award winning museum with a permanent collection,a unique Story Telling Room and changing exhibitions art gallery, riverside café, shop showing arts and crafts and our riverside garden of Scottish herbs and flowers, nestling against the Telford bridge. Read more about what’s on... and new for 2008

This picturesque village, with harbours, coastal and riverside walking trails, boasts one of the best salmon rivers in the North. The River Helmsdale flows from the Strath of Kildonan – the location of the great 1869 goldrush and an area affected by the Highland Clearances.

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Dunrobin Street,
Helmsdale,
Sutherland KW8 6JX

Tel: 01431 821327 Fax: 01431 821058

Email: enquiries@timespan.org.uk


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ELEPHANT TEST, an exciting exhibition of new performance and video work by Timespan’s artist in residence, Ruth Macdougall. The exhibition will open for preview on Friday 22 May between 7 and 9pm in Timespan’s gallery.

The preview night is also a celebration of Helmsdale’s Ice House. All who attend will have the opportunity to look around inside and see the new door and window that Ruth has designed in conjunction with local sculptor, Sam Barlow. This permanent installation is the last in a legacy of improvements coordinated by Ruth that will breathe a new lease of life into the monumental deep freeze.
The new lockable door and window will allow for much needed security and ventilation for the damp interior, allowing visitors to see inside even when the doors are locked. Carefully installed lighting is already allowing the buildings vaulted interior to be properly appreciated for the first time. And after the success of Chris Dooks SCALES music performance, which drew an audience of 65 to the ice house, we can look forward to many more original events.

The ice house project has been generously supported by Helmsdale community council, Highland Council, Timespan and Sutherland Estate. In particular Chris Whealing, manager of Sutherland Estate must be thanked for his support, engaging collaboratively with the project coordinator to ensure that the next chapter in the life of Helmsdale’s Ice House is an exciting one.


ELEPHANT TEST runs from 23 May – 28 June and will also be showing in the grounds of Tate Modern from 22-25 May, as part of The House of Fairy Tales Arte Povera Installation.

Although Ruth only has two months left of her two year residency, they look set to be as full as ever. Ruth will be curating a month long residency also in response to the ice house by glass/film artist Anne Brodie and video artist Yael Rosenblut. Both artists will be resident at Timespan from 1 June until 4 July – please check Timespan web site for related events.

Ruth’s residency is funded by The Paul Hamlyn Foundation and The Scottish Arts Council’s partners programme.


Timespan Artist in Residence/ Youth Arts Curator
Aug 07 - Aug 09

Timespan
Dunrobin St
Helmsdale
KW8 6JX
Sutherland

+44(0) 1431 821 327

www.timespanours-ruth.blogspot.com
Funded by The Paul Hamlyn Foundation and The Scottish Arts Council's partners programme

 


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