Edinburgh Art Festival Exhibitions Preview 2026
Jamie Fitzpatrick at Edinburgh Printmakers
We're thrilled to be presenting two exhibitions as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival 2026; Jamie Fitzpatrick: Memorials to Sausage Politics and Etchingroom1: Unexpected Tip. Both exhibitions run from 24 July - 25 September.
Thursday 23 July
6:30-8:30pm
This event is free, and all are welcome. We encourage booking online in advance via the link above. Availability on the evening will be dependent on capacity, with refreshments served on arrival. Edinburgh Printmakers' onsite cafe KUBA will operate a paid bar following this.
Memorials to Sausage Politics is a new exhibition by Jamie Fitzpatrick exploring debates around post-colonial public statuary. Developed through residencies at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and Edinburgh Printmakers, it presents new prints and printed sculptures that reimagine monuments as comic, monstrous forms, questioning their symbolism and place within Scotland’s civic landscape.
Presented by Etchingroom1, Unexpected Trip is an exhibition exploring journeys through prints, drawings, embroidery and ceramics that reflect the difficult and exhilarating moments of life. The works give socially critical depictions of Western societies, whilst combining personal experience with imagination. These literal and figurative trips, from moving boxes, metro scenes, and vampire adventures, serve the reminder: “this too shall pass”.
Both exhibitions are part of Edinburgh Art Festival 2026 (14 August - 30 August).
Memorials to Sausage Politics is supported by Henry Moore Foundation, with thanks to Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop in the realisation of this work.
Unexpected Trip is supported by the British Council.
Edinburgh Printmakers is supported by Creative Scotland Multi-Year Funding, City of Edinburgh Council’s Strategic Partnerships Funding, Garfield Weston Foundation, and The Turtleton Charitable Trust.
