Join us on Saturday 26 October, 1-5pm, for an afternoon celebrating the life and work of Katy Dove.
Between October 2024 – March 2025, Edinburgh Printmakers will host six events that focus on rarely seen treasures from our Permanent Collection in our Unwrapped series.
The first of this series will be an afternoon celebrating the artist Katy Dove, presented in collaboration with the Katy Dove Archive.
Katy Dove worked with Edinburgh Printmakers to create 3 prints in 2004. She approached screenprinting with her typically playful creativity. For this edition she created shaped characters which were then moved, overlapped, and combined in different ways, suggestive of the movement of her stop-frame animations. The prints were exhibited at Edinburgh Printmakers alongside a full screen presentation of her animation.
We’ll be recreating this presentation marking 20 years since its debut. We’ll also have the unique opportunity to see some additional archival materials - animation cells, felt-tip drawings, watercolour, and embroidery works on loan from the Katy Dove Archive.
Throughout the event there will be a drop-in printmaking workshop inspired by Katy Dove’s practice and the artist's interest in synaesthesia. Pairing colours and shapes to sounds, smells, and other senses. These are beginner-friendly, no previous experience required.
Katy Dove (1970 – 2015) was born in Oxford and brought up in the Black Isle, a peninsula in the Scottish Highlands. She made a singular contribution to art and music in Scotland. Dove was a vital and enthusiastic member of a generation of artists who made significant impact over the last 25 years in the UK and internationally. She studied psychology at the University of Glasgow before attending Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee. Dove is best known for her vibrant, colourful, yet meditative artwork. A memorial exhibition of her work was held at Dundee Contemporary Arts in 2016 before travelling to various galleries in the north of Scotland including Pier Arts Centre, Orkney.
Other upcoming events from the Unwrapped series include:
- November 2024 – A close look at Stone Lithography with EP Head of Editions Alastair Clark, and artist in residence Natasha Thomas
- January 2025 – ‘Prints of Darkness’ Portfolio event and listening party
- March 2025 – A focus on women in the Permanent Collection for International Women’s Day with reading group.
- March 2025 – A closer look at working with John Bellany with a panel of speakers.
Stay tuned for dates and ticket info.
The Unwrapped series of events is part of our heritage project Castle Mills: Then & Now supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, made possible by money raised by National Lottery players.
