Think surrealist. This was my first take, at least, of Bernie Reid’s Ornamental Breakdown exhibition currently showing at the Edinburgh Printmakers until the 16th March 2023. Having never visited the gallery, I was pleasantly surprised. This renovated nineteenth-century factory is nestled along Dundee Street. The minimalist interior, complete with oversized glass windows and concrete flooring, […]
From Paper to Gold is Edinburgh Printmakers’ 50-year anniversary celebration. The name itself is a play on the traditional wedding anniversary gifts, with the first year being marked by paper and the fiftieth with gold. For the festivities, the studio and gallery has invited fifty resident or former-resident artists to contribute a piece of their […]
In a small, unassuming attic at the Edinburgh Printmakers lives the vibrant New Edition exhibition curated by Sarah Lowndes. Whilst radiating modernity, there is a paradox between the modern subject matter and the traditional process of printmaking. Created by artists Emer Tumilty, Museums Press, and Poster Club, each different work is bound together in synthesis, […]
Perhaps you’re reading this on paper, or maybe you’re reading this on a screen. A lot of significant things have happened over a significant amount of time, to get you to this very insignificant event. Picture a series of minds evolving idea after idea, a series of hands building machine after machine. These people have […]
Edinburgh Printmakers: Until March 26th The exhibition Rhythm in Research of Rachel Duckhouse’s art, is an innovative new exhibition which uniquely explores the physical process of creating prints within research. The amount of preparation for the work seen in the exhibition is clear in its eventual execution which is entirely complex and intricate in its […]
Edinburgh Printmakers: Until December 20th Indelible Traces is a collection of printmakers’ work concerned with the industrialization of Edinburgh, primarily through a history of the Fountainbridge area. The exhibition is a celebration of the workers of Fountainbridge, an area best known as the home of the Northern British Rubber Company from the late 19th century to […]