On Thursday 21st August at 6pm please join us for a hybrid artist's talk to celebrate Robert Powell’s solo exhibition Hall of Hours, in conversation with Dr Alasdair Richmond from the University of Edinburgh, School of Philosophy.
Taking place in our Gallery 1 where the exhibition is on display, as well as being available to join online, the conversation will be followed by a short Q&A.
Tickets are £5/£3 and £2 concession.
Robert Powell is an Edinburgh-based visual artist whose multidisciplinary practice focuses on printmaking, but extends to sculpture, video, and text. A graduate of Edinburgh College of Art and longstanding studio member of Edinburgh Printmakers, Robert Powell has exhibited widely at home as well as throughout Europe, North America and the Far East.
Alasdair Richmond teaches philosophy at Edinburgh University. He's interested in time, space and philosophy of science. He mainly researches the philosophy of time travel. He never got over failing to win John Menzies' 'Dr. Who Monster Painting Competition' 1976.
Hall of Hours explores time through Robert Powell's unique imagery capturing humanity's complexity, grandeur, and folly in intricate and thought-provoking compositions. Inspired by medieval Books of Hours, this multimedia exhibition features prints, sculpture, sound installation and animation, reflecting on how we experience, order and preserve time.
Find out more about Robert Powell's solo show here, and Aqsa Arif's solo show "Raindrops of Rani" here. Both exhibitions are presented by Edinburgh Printmakers as part of the 2025 Edinburgh Art Festival.
This exhibition is supported by New Media Scotland, and is a new body of work that expands on the themes contained within a previous work, Chromoscope, an animated clock originally created for the refurbished Music Hall in Aberdeen and supported by New Media Scotland's Alt-w Fund with investment from Creative Scotland in 2022.
This event 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.
