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This exhibition of cyanotype prints is a playful exploration of botanical forms intended to prompt the viewer to consider what is ‘natural’ and the part human beings play in the natural world. Much of Murray’s artistic practice stems from her training as a biologist and from her abiding interest in science and nature. The works in this exhibition resulted from an artists residency at Hospitalfield House: an arts centre on the East Coast of Scotland. Murray spent a summer exploring the local area and began to research ideas for a series of botanically themed cyanotypes, or ‘blueprints’. The cyanotype process is a simple photographic contact printing method developed over 150 years ago. The works in this exhibition are digital composites of plant imagery gathered in the field over the last two and a half years - the product of plant growth, digital manipulation and the dark-room alchemy of the cyanotype process itself; each is a small work of fiction. 08 April to 27 May 2006 This exhibition of prints, paintings and objects consists of digitally designed visual responses to the artist’s experience of kidney dialysis and transplantation. In June 1999 Jim Pattison was diagnosed as having renal failure, he subsequently underwent Continual Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis until he received a kidney transplant in July 2002. As he underwent the long process of diagnosis, dialysis and transplantation, Pattison became aware of a need to use his visual creativity to make sense of his experiences and the complex medical terminology used to describe his condition. Over the last decade Pattison’s work has concentrated on using digital technology to manipulate images and information. Creating work that encourages us to consider the perceptual processes which allow us to mentally re-interpret two-dimensional images as three-dimensional forms. Pattison’s latest series Translations, on display in this exhibition, continues this investigation, only the source material is gathered from his medical records and experiences of dialysis and transplantation. Glasgow Art Fair 2006 Please come and visit us on our stand at Glasgow Art Fair this year! Public Opening Hours: Scotland’s National Art Fair, George Square, Glasgow Edinburgh Art Festival |
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Edinburgh Printmakers Gallery is one of Scotland's foremost gallery spaces devoted to contemporary fine art original prints - most of which are made in our studio. Some of the most established artists working in Scotland use our studio alongside recent graduates, professional artists and many printmakers from all over the world, who come to use the facilities on offer. We have four print browsers - over 500 prints - visitors can view an amazing range of the best contemporary prints available in Scotland. We have highly knowledgeable gallery staff on hand to help and answer any queries about the artists, their working syles and subject matter. Exhibition Programme To complement the work on show by the resident artists we 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, Matisse and Picasso to contemporary American prints by such artists as - Andy Warhol and Jim Dine - to the wealth of talent that exists in Scotland itself. 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. Our Gallery hours are Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm |
