This year the Royal Scottish Academy celebrates its 200 year anniversary, and we have a number of prints by RSA Academicians and Honorary Academicians on display as part of London Original Print Fair this year. Artists include Ade Adesina RSA, John Bellany CBE HRSA, Victoria Crowe OBE RSA, Wendy McMurdo RSA and John Byrne MBE RSA.
You can find our online exhibitor stand on London Original Print Fair’s website.
Images:
Ade Adesina, Glitch, linocut, 2024
John Bellany, Woman with Fish, etching, 1995.
Victoria Crowe, Stillness, lithograph and screenprint, 2022.
Wendy McMurdo, Nature Study (Gannet) II, archival digital print, 2021.
John Byrne. Moonstruck, stone lithograph, 2014.
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Edinburgh Printmakers is seeking a detail-oriented and proactive finance professional committed to supporting accurate, efficient financial operations and excellent service within a dynamic arts charity environment.
The Finance Assistant will support the effective daily running of the finance department across a variety of functions. Reporting to the Finance Manager, the role requires strong attention to detail, the ability to use initiative, and a commitment to the accurate processing of accounting transactions and financial information.
Closing Date: noon, Sunday 31 May
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Today is Day 2 of the London Original Print Fair! You can find our online exhibitor stand on London Original Print Fair’s website.
Stretching from the 1980s with Axiom by Hideo Furuta through to our most recent published editions with Susan Aldworth, this selection of works documents and champions contemporary printmaking in Scotland over the last 40 years. The 40 works on display represent a selection of Edinburgh Printmakers’ full Sales Collection of over 8,000 prints.
Images:
Hideo Furuta, Axiom, lithograph, 1989.
Toby Paterson, St Ives Axonometric Brown, screenprint, 2006.
Rachel Maclean, Miss Celtic, photopolymer gravure, 2013.
Susan Aldworth, Crossings, stone and plate lithograph, 2026.
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Susan Aldworth: Belongings
Stories behind the exhibition
The first image shows an embroidered printed photograph of Luigia Domenica Anna Pini (Susan Aldworth’s maternal grandmother), who was born on 21st December 1903. She was the eldest child of Rocco Pini and Maria Conti. They lived at Menoni, a gated farm in Casanova, a small village on the outskirts of Bardi, a castle town in the Emilia Romagna. Luigia had five siblings: Pietro (b 1905), Angelina (b.1907), Maria (b.1909), Antonio (b. 1912) and Giovanna (b.1916). She met Giuseppe Berni at church and they married on 5 February 1923. Luigia was an ambitious: she was clever, fluent in church Latin, and wanted to train as a nurse, but Giuseppe wanted a simple life without responsibility.
They moved to the UK in 1924 to find a better life.
The image of Luigia is embroidered on the nightgown that she brought with her from Italy to the UK, and wanted to be buried in. Her family didn't think it was posh enough for a burial outfit, and so Susan inherited it. This became the seed of the exhibition.
They lived long lives. Giuseppe Berni died aged 93 in 1994, and Luigia Berni died aged 94 in 1997. They both worked hard until well into their 70s – Giuseppe as a driver at The Vauxhall Cake company, and Luigia as cook and housekeeper to Mrs Bond in Kensington. They had 5 children, 14 grandchildren, and 24 great grandchildren who are all British Citizens and oriundi.
Visit the exhibition to explore their stories further.
Susan Aldworth: Belongings
Open until 28 June, Tuesday-Sunday, 10am-6pm
Free to Enter
Photos by Alan Dimmick
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We are delighted to be showcasing a number of prints for sale as part of London Original Print Fair this weekend (14-17 May). You can find our online exhibitor stand on London Original Print Fair's website.
The works on display showcase limited edition prints created by invited artists through the EP Editions Programme and EP Studio Members, including Pio Abad, Ade Adesina, John Byrne, Calum Colvin, Katy Dove, Clare Grossman, Rachel Maclean, Hardeep Pandhal, and Carol Rhodes.
Images:
Calum Colvin, Pretender 3, archival digital print, 2014.
Pio Abad, Revelry and its Aftermath 3, etching, 2008.
Katy Dove, Mirador, screenprint, 2004.
Carol Rhodes, Roads Buildings (Night), screenprint, 2014.
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Our friends at CWC facing a critical gap in funding that would mean CLOSURE. Please donate if you can:
you can find the link to the crowdfunder in their bio > @communitywellbeingcollective
The Community Wellbeing Collective (CWC) is a grassroots group of people living in or connected to Wester Hailes, Edinburgh. They were brought together in 2021 by social-practice artist Jeanne van Heeswijk, as part of a commission by Edinburgh Art Festival and WHALE Arts. Together they transformed a derelict former off-license in Westside Plaza Shopping Centre into a Community Wellbeing Space, run by and for the people. The CWC is now its own constituted organisation which works in partnership with Edinburgh Art Festival.
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Printmaking Taster Workshop
Wednesday 13 May, 6-8:30pm
🧑🎨 Drypoint Etching
To book please see our website: link in bio >Courses and Workshops
Are you interested in stepping into the wonderful world of printmaking? Are you not quite sure where to start, or what will best suit your practice and way of working?
Book a Taster Workshop! These fun, informative and relaxed workshops will give you a taste of the many amazing printmaking techniques we offer as part of our education programme, without having to commit to a full course. Bring along your ideas and we’ll provide you with everything else you need to make and take away some fresh-off the press prints!
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Lithography Summer workshops at EP
Edinburgh Printmakers are running two, 3 day classes in Lithography this summer.
Colour Litho
27-29 June
Explore the world of creative options with this 3 day class. Photo litho plates are the ideal place to start in litho if you are new to the process.
Stone expanded practice
18-20 July
Go deeper with 3 days of stone lithography. Demos, instructions and loads of practice to create your own prints and learn how to litho..
Book via Edinburgh Printmakers website
Reel images from some of the amazing people on stone classes in 2025 & 2026
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Behind the scenes of Susan Aldworth: Modern Alchemy
In Gallery 2, Modern Alchemy sees the artist share the results of a collaboration with Dr Amanda Jarvis of @edinburghuniversity whose research in sustainable chemistry explore how to make chemical synthesis greener including recycling and replacing precious metals with cheaper, more abundant alternatives.
In 2023 Aldworth was awarded a commission by @ascusartandscience to make a series of experimental works in response to Dr Jarvis’ research whose long-term aim is to develop more sustainable catalytic chemistry. To mirror the ambition of Jarvis’ laboratory to reduce, recycle or replace expensive metals in catalysis, Aldworth decided to work in etching, switching from expensive copper and zinc etching plates to cheaper steel plates. By throwing chemicals into the aquatint resin before it was fired onto the plate surface, Aldworth developed a visual equivalence of catalysis– capturing a moment of chemical reaction.
Susan Aldworth: Modern Alchemy
Open until 28 June, Tuesday-Sunday, 10am-6pm
Free to Enter
We would like to congratulate Hannah Lim on being shortlisted for the House & Garden Craft Prize! 🌱
Hannah's practice draws on the relationship between her British and Singaporean heritage and how that's reflected historically in design, often creating intricate compositions with detailed motifs and anthropomorphised creatures. In 2022, Edinburgh Printmakers held Hannah's first solo exhibition in Scotland, 'Ornamental Mythologies'. The works in the exhibition saw Lim interpreting and merging imagery, motifs and stories from Medieval and Chinese bestiaries and mythology.
All of these works are available to purchase on our website.
Hannah Lim
Tiger Fish, 2022
Hand-coloured Watercolour Etching
Paper size: 40 x 32cm
Image size: 24.5 x 20cm
Edition of 10
£450
Hannah Lim
Eight Eyed Fish in Flames, 2022
Screenprint and digital print with spot varnish and metallic finish
Paper size: 52 x 52 cm
Image size: 52 x 52 cm
Edition of 10
£300
Hannah Lim
Weeping Petals in the Rain, 2022
Hand-coloured Watercolour Etching
Paper size: 36 x 27cm
Image size: 20 x 15cm
Edition of 10
£400
Hannah Lim
Heluo-Fish, 2022
Hand-coloured Watercolour Etching
Paper size: 27.5 x 25.5cm
Image size: 12.5 x 10cm
Edition of 10
£350
We also offer the Own Art scheme for all works that apply.
🍝 Pasta Making Workshop
Tuesday 2 June | 6-8pm
To book please see our website: link in bio >Events
This pasta workshop is set up in response to Susan Aldworth’s current exhibition at Edinburgh Printmakers, Belongings.
The session uses pre-made dough to consider how recipes are shared and hold significance to identity, family histories and social interaction! Working with dough, you will be shown how to make patterned pasta; for this, we will reflect on the work in Aldworth’s current exhibition, considering the shapes and marks which appear in the work.
The pasta will then be gathered together, cooked, and served for a relaxed meal.
Please note this workshop concludes in a communal meal which contains gluten.
#pasta #meal #edinburghprintmakers
Screenprinting Weekend Course
30 & 31 May
To book please see our website: link in bio >Courses and Workshops
Learn all about the dynamic and colorful process of screenprinting.
During the course, each participant will work on their own print, creating 3-4 layers of colour onto paper. The process is explored through hands-on practice where participants learn the practical skills involved in making a screenprint.
#screenprint #silkscreen
