Tim Brennan

Deveron Manoeuvres, June 2009

Over the past two decades, artist Tim Brennan has exhibited performance, photography, sculpture, writing, and painting internationally, and has been active as a curator and teacher of art. Brennan’s practice revolves around art and politics both inside and outside the gallery. This has surfaced in part as a methodology based on the guided walk and conversation as art (the manoeuvre), which exists between traditions of performance art, loco-description, history and as a mode of radical travel-writing. In addition Brennan has approached the display and readings of artefacts and their collections via in-depth commissions with The British Museum, National Maritime Museum, Henry Moore Institute and the Mass Observation archive.

Brennan developed two new walks for Deveron Arts in 2009.

1.    ‘Sylvan Manoeuvre’ leads participants on a tour of Battlehill, a wooded area on the edge of Huntly that is undergoing a period of conservation and felling. The walk combines histories of the location with other cultural references. 

2.    In ‘Host’, Brennan links many of Huntly’s contemporary art works of the Town Collection as a walking route of hosts ranging from the town library, to the butchers, garages and other venues across the town. The tour brings new quotations and references to the journey.