Our Shared World | Edinburgh Printmakers

Hung across Galleries 1 & 2 at Edinburgh Printmakers, Our Shared World invites Edinburgh Printmakers’ Studio Members to reflect on the world we live in individually and collectively, from a community committed to exploring how printmaking and the arts can promote understanding of how to be human in today’s 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.

Spanning a range of mediums, including screenprinting, lithography, etching, relief and 3D mixed-media pieces, the exhibition includes work by 121 Studio Members working in the open access print studio at Edinburgh Printmakers.

Works presented in Our Shared World are for sale – please direct queries to our Front of House team who will also be able to advise of further works we hold in our archive and shop of each member’s work.
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EP Members' Show Award

Edinburgh Printmakers would like to congratulate Joanne Pemberton, who won the EP Members' Show Award for her sculptures Living With No Brain, and Blastula Orbit.

Joanne's interest in taking her lithograph prints into different dimensions comes from seeing how they take on different shapes and meanings. She chose to use this fold after her research into the journey of a sea urchin, from its initial conception to its eventual transformation into a fossil - using traditional printing and folding to reimagine the forms and structures of the different stages of the creature's metamorphosis within life and death.
Highly Commended

In addition, we are very pleased to award two artists Highly Commended Awards, Ursula Pretsch and Masha Tiplady.

Ursula's print, Safe Zone, was created as a result of her artist residency in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (Norway) in April 2024. It raises questions of shared space and co-existence of wildlife and humans by having the polar bear walking out of the image as his shrinking territory and the melting ice leave him no choice than to look for alternative food sources on land.

Ursula Pretsch, Safe Zone, 2024, screenprint

Masha's work, May, is an original handprinted 10-colour wood engraving, in which she tried to capture the spirit of May - her favourite time of the year

Masha Tiplady, May, wood engraving
Explore works on display
- Xinyi Yang, Floating, 2025
- Yasmeen Khan, Mountaintop, 2025
We would like to thank Dr Jon Blackwood, Associate Professor in contemporary art at Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, for joining us on the selection panel for 2025.

We would also like to thank Daler Rowney for sponsoring a prize for this exhibition.

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