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East Ayrshire Council | Ayrshire Innovators
Dick Institute and Art Gallery
Kilmarnock
As part of the Dick Institute Museum & Art Gallery’s Homecoming exhibition Ayrshire Innovators, artists Guy Bishop, Alan Brown & Matt Hulse were commissioned to create an interactive exhibit, Dunlop’s Pedal Powered Time Machine.
Participants are invited to sit upon & pedal a hand-built bicycle, powering a series of visual effects including moving imagery produced by a zoetrope.
The work is inspired by Ayrshire-born John Boyd Dunlop’s invention of the ‘practical pneumatic tyre’ & his contemporary, Kirkpatrick Macmillan, credited with the invention of the pedal bicycle, or ‘velocipede’.
Matt proposed the original idea for the exhibition & the three artists developed the idea collaboratively, designing & constructing devices that could be used to explore the emergence of the world’s most popular form of sustainable transport.
The exhibit will be set in an imagined workshop-come-drawing room in which inventors such as Dunlop worked, with experiments, half-finished inventions & new ideas spilling over into the domestic environment. The materials used in the exhibit have been sourced from scrap yards & recycling centres, re-using where possible.
The exhibit creates a sense of playful experimentation, reminding us that innovation is often the result of a seemingly chaotic & untidy process of trial & error.
The show Dunlop's Pedal Powered Time Machine runs from May 30th – September 12th at the Dick Institute Museum & Art Gallery.
For further details including opening times & venue location, please follow this link.
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