Edinburgh Printmakers: Annual member’s show Our Shared World unveiled for winter

Edinburgh Printmakers presents Our Shared World: Castle Mills Members Show 5 this winter, celebrating talent from the studio floor.

Opening on 28 November 2025 and running through to 15 March 2026, audiences can browse and buy art from a selection of artists who call the city’s centre for printmaking home. Spanning a range of mediums, including screenprinting, lithography, etching, relief and 3D mixed-media pieces, the exhibition includes work by 124 of the 280 Studio Members who make work in one of Europe’s largest printmaking workshops.

Each year, Members are invited to respond to a collective theme, encouraging the artistic community to create new work for the show. This year’s theme - Our Shared World - considers how we take up space locally and globally as citizens of the world. 

From shifting social, cultural and economic landscapes to the physical and environmental impacts we have on the planet, the works in the exhibition explore the realities of co-existing with each other and with the places we occupy. From misspoken words to experiences of migration, important stories of our times are cut, etched, drawn and stitched through the medium of contemporary printmaking. 

Highlights from the exhibition - which includes 125 artworks - include Anupa Gardner’s “Summerbright”, which draws inspiration from a quiet pond in a community garden that has been nurtured by many hands. This six layered reduction woodcut, printed on Somerset Velvet Newsprint Grey, offers a moment of stillness in a busy city where green spaces and places of rest feel rare. 

 

Taking inspiration from the fossil of a sea urchin, Joanne Pemberton's process uses the magic ball fold (designed by Raman Dhillon) to explore traditional printing and folding techniques, reimagining the forms and structures of the creature’s metamorphosis within life and death. The 3D pieces are made using Stone Lithography, printed on newsprint, and painted on the inside.

Rory Hamilton’s “You’re looking well (at the GPs)” considers “the things people say” while someone comes to terms with a diagnosis of a chronic condition. Based on the artist’s lived experience, the work pairs phrases and comments with photos and drawings of how this can make that person feel. In Rory’s own words - “Often I’m laughing, sometimes with you, sometimes at you.” 

In “Kevin, New York, migrant”, a seven-layer stone lithograph by Kevin Maringer, the artist explores the expansions of our horizons through migration, in the lens of lived experience. The work considers how migrant experiences are perceived, and how personal identities often shift and are negotiated in shared spaces, in adopted homes, and upon return. Alastair Kinroy’s “Identity Concerns Us” is a large colour woodcut for our times. Considering ideas of collective action and individualism in the 21st Century, the artist seeks to question how discourses around identity and nationhood shape the world we live in.

And in “Is The Sky Free In Kensington?” Sue Shields observes how people navigate space in the busy landscape of London. Recording their experience of watching people - in a monotype with acrylic on Hahnemuhle paper - Sue turns towards the evening sky, connecting a shared experience of people from all walks of life who gaze up at a sunset

Janet Archer, Chief Executive, Edinburgh Printmakers said:

Edinburgh Printmakers Annual Members’ Exhibition is an opportunity for visitors to the Galleries to get a glimpse of the scale and variety of work being created in our studio. A shared  printmaking studio is a lively place where artists exchange ideas and knowledge about different print processes through a mutually supportive and encouraging community keen to push the boundaries of what printmaking can do through alchemy and experimentation. We’re grateful for world leading facilities which have seen a growing membership based not just in the city but throughout Scotland and the UK. In addition, international artists keen to work with our exceptionally skilled studio team are increasingly seeing Edinburgh Printmakers as a destination.

Our Shared World  is a reflection on the world we live in individually and collectively, and a response to the changing local and global environment from a community committed to exploring how printmaking and the arts can promote understanding of how to be human in today’s world. ,

We’re thrilled with the overwhelming response to our exhibition callout and to be able to showcase more artists than ever before. Our selection panel have been highly impressed  by the quality of work on offer and as a selling exhibition we look forward to giving festive shoppers an opportunity to buy unique gifts while supporting Scotland’s printmaking community.”

   

All artworks in “Our Shared World” are for sale, and make for individual and unique gifts this winter. All artworks are also eligible for purchase through the Own Art scheme, spreading the cost over 10 months at 0% interest.

10 Nov 2025