Edinburgh Printmakers
Castle Mills, 1 Dundee Street, EH3 9FP
29 November 2024 – 16 March 2025
Exhibition Preview: 28 November, 6:30-8:30pm
Hope/Dòchas invites you to explore the many forms hope takes, as demonstrated by over 96 artists and 105 works. Across both galleries, hope is considered through all printmaking forms, featuring processes including screenprint, lithography, cyanotype, etching, relief, digital, textile, and 3D works incorporating printmaking.
Themes include social cohesion and community, environmental and economic sustainability, and wellbeing. The artists in our community have considered various ideas of hope and what that means on a personal and collective level. Alongside reflection and critical responses, what can we actively achieve and make manifest to generate a better future and inspire hope? The resulting exhibition is a dazzling display of the various possibilities of the printmaking medium, and a celebration of the diversity and creativity of the Edinburgh Printmakers community.
My piece, Borage Pod v1, is a cyanotype on canvas made from a macro photograph taken in my garden. I have been appreciating the small details in my small urban garden, especially as I have been ill. For much of the summer I was unable to go much further than my garden.
The exhibition preview on the 28th is free and open to all, but please book a space via the link above as it is likely to fill up.
Eleanor Buffam 