Edinburgh Printmakers Presents "The Writing on Your Wall"

Written by Daniel McCaffrey Sunday, 11 September 2011 22:47

Edinburgh.- Edinburgh Printmakers Gallery is pleased to present "The Writing on Your Wall", an exhibition curated by Rob Tufnell, on view from September 17th through October 29th. Featuring works by contemporary artists Jeremy Deller, Ruth Ewan, Alasdair Gray, Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan amongst others "The Writing on Your Wall" is an exhibition that looks at printmaking as a socially concerned, democratic media designed to disseminate radical ideas. The Gallery and Studio are very centrally situated being only a few minutes walk from both the railway station, central bus station and the main shopping and cafe areas.

The exhibition, featuring contemporary commissions and historical examples and artifacts, looks back to a history of polemical, iconoclastic and satirical printmaking. Taking its name both from the biblically inspired idiom (Daniel 5:25–28) and a British Situationist poster from 1968 the exhibition not only proposes political change but can perhaps also be seen to acknowledge the increasing marginalisation of print in a digital age. Edinburgh Printmakers will commission and publish new prints by Art & Language, Jeremy Deller, Ruth Ewan, Alistair Gray and Tom O’Sullivan and Joanne Tatham. Their works will be presented alongside prints produced by Christopher Logue and by King Mob in the late 1960s, James Gillray in the late seventeenth century, pamphlets produced by political presses in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century and other political ephemera and banners. The exhibition will be accompanied by a free catalogue produced on obsolete, historical equipment, within and during the exhibition.

Established in 1967 as the first open access studio in Britain, Edinburgh Printmakers (EP) is dedicated to the promotion of contemporary printmaking practice. It achieves this by providing, maintaining and staffing an entrance free gallery and inexpensive, open access print studio, where artists and members of the public can use equipment and source technical expertise in order to develop their hands on printmaking skills. As a not for profit organisation that is also a registered charity, EP receives approximately 50% of it's funding through revenue and project funding from the Scottish Arts Council as well as support from the City of Edinburgh Council. This enables the organisation to highly subsidise the cost of using the print studio, making access to creative facilities affordable to a wide range of people. This includes professional artists, students, community groups and members of the public, who wish to develop new or existing skills. To complement the work on show by the resident artists they have a rolling programme of exhibitions representing the whole spectrum of contemporary graphic art. Previous exhibitions have ranged from the graphic works of artists such as Marc Chagall, David Hockney, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso to contemporary American prints by such artists as Andy Warhol and Jim Dine as well as showcasing the wealth of talent that exists in Scotland itself. Visit Edinburgh Printmakers website at ... http://edinburgh-printmakers.co.uk/

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