Tessa Lynch, Testing Ground
We're thrilled to be presenting two exhibitions as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival 2022; in Gallery 1 presenting new work with ECA John Florent Stone award recipient Tessa Lynch, and an EAF co-commission from renowned Montreal-based artist Nadia Myre in Gallery 2 and the Union Canal at Fountainbridge. Both exhibitions run from 28 July - 18 September.
Tessa Lynch: Houses Fit for People
Edinburgh Printmakers presents Glasgow-based artist Tessa Lynch, whose practice centres on feminist readings of the city, highlighting issues of social reproduction that are often at odds with contemporary art and life. The exhibition promotes alternative building techniques inspired by collaborative play and the natural world, taking its title from a 1986 BBC documentary series which looked at the failures of the modern movement's social housing.
Considering her installation an 'expanded print,' the artist responds to the history of the Castle Mills building and the regeneration taking place across Fountainbridge in the present.
Nadia Myre: Tell Me of Your Boats and Your Waters- Where Do They Come From, Where Do They Go?
EAF and EP present newly commissioned work from Montreal-based artist Nadia Myre responding to the 200th anniversary of the Union Canal.
The project – across print, installation and sound – explores reference points spanning Scotland and Canada, migratory routes started on the canal, indigenous story-telling, archival research methods, pattern, prose and song. As an Algonquin member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation, Myre’s work sited alongside the canal and in Gallery 2 at Edinburgh Printmakers brings to the fore the decolonial impulse inherent in the artist’s practice, imprinting and entangling materials with meaning.
This event is free. Refreshments will be provided. Please book using the link below.
