VIEW: Selected EP Editions

Peter Lynch was born in Burnley in 1971 and studied at Glasgow School of Art and Goldsmiths College, London. He has since been an artist in residence at Glasgow School of Art and has exhibited widely nationally and internationally. In a conversation with Jon Calcutt, he describes how the finger marks in his paintings – transferred here to print – ‘started off when I was at college… [having] a bucket full of dirty paint from cleaning brushes and I painted a canvas with that paint; then I tried to pick out the crud from it, leaving small finger marks. That is how I first started bringing the finger marks directly into the painting. It was at that time a form of irony, initially intended to question the idea of the perfect and the pure which came into prominence with a lot of Modernist painters. I wanted to really break that down. Since then the finger mark has become a lot more integral, in some ways melted into the painted surface itself.’ The artist lives and works in London.

Born in Edinburgh, Carol Rhodes (1959 – 2018) was a Scottish artist who grew up in Serampore, India. She came back to Scotland during her teenage years to study at the Glasgow of School of Art. After graduating in 1982, Rhodes was key activist for feminism and organised many political events in Glasgow before becoming a painter in 1990. Her unique landscapes began developing around 1994 and focused on human intervention in the natural environment. These distinct, man-made scenes are created from photographs and other sources. Carol Rhodes worked closely with Edinburgh Printmakers to produce editions for the residence programme Below Another Sky (2013-14), a project funded by British Council to support artists to travel and make work. By 2015, Rhodes stopped producing work as she was diagnosed with motor neurone disease then unfortunately passed in 2018. Rhodes works are held in major collections including Tate, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut.

Katy Dove (1979-2015) grew up on the Black Isle in the Scottish Highlands, and after studying psychology at the University of Glasgow gained a scholarship to Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art where she studied Sculpture, graduating in 1999. The practice she developed over the course of fifteen years comprised drawing, painting, printmaking, textiles, photography and moving image. Dove was active in several artist-led initiatives and co-founded the band Muscles of Joy. Dove’s background in psychology and interest in art therapy influenced her work whilst exploring art's visceral potential. Her practice was collaborative and co-operative. Katy Dove worked with Edinburgh Printmakers to create 3 prints in 2004, approaching 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. Solo exhibitions of her work include Transmission, Glasgow; Talbot Rice, Edinburgh; and Pump House, London. Katie Dove was one of the first artists to represent Scotland at the Venice Biennale, 2003. She exhibited at Duff House, Banff for Generation (2014). A memorial exhibition of her work was held at Dundee Contemporary Arts and travelling to galleries in the north of Scotland, 2016.

Originally from Aberdeen, Ruth Ewan studied at the Edinburgh College of Art. An internationally celebrated artist whose research-led and critically engaged practice has drawn attention within contemporary art and socio-political history, her work engages with the circulation of radical ideas and social movements, and the processes by which ideas take form and spread from individuals to society. In 2011, Ruth Ewan was commissioned by Edinburgh Printmakers for an exhibition titled ‘The Writing on Your Wall’, which looked at printmaking as a socially concerned, democratic media designed to disseminate radical ideas. For this, Ewan worked with young people from Broughton High School to design a font. The letters were originally drawn onto rubbers, one by each member of the class, then cut into maple woodblocks. Ruth Ewan has shown extensively within galleries and museums including Collective, The Cooper Gallery, Edinburgh Art Festival, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Hideo Furuta was an artist and teacher born in Hiroshima, Japan, 1949. From 1969–71, Furuta attended Tokyo Visual Art College, for foundation and sculpture before coming to Britain in 1985. He worked primarily in sculpture but also across different mediums such as printmaking, drawing, photography, and video. Furuta would use vast outdoor spaces both as workshop and canvas. Before relocating to Britain, Hideo Furuta worked as a stonemason. When he settled in Creetown, Galloway, the plethora of white granite in the quarries he lived beside gave him raw materials to create his huge but whisperingly delicate works. In 1989, Furuta became artist in residence at Edinburgh University which led to having constructions at Pollock Halls of Residence and an exhibition at the Talbot Rice Gallery, as well as in Gullane and Dumfries. Collections holding his work include Margam Sculpture Park; Edinburgh Printmakers; Gallery Oriel 31; and Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and Museum.

Donald Urquhart RSA is a multidisciplinary artist born in Perthshire, Scotland. Urquhart studied Drawing & Painting at Edinburgh College of Art where he now lectures in Landscape Architecture. Since making impact as an artist in the 1990s, his strong appreciation for landscapes is a key theme in his work, furthered by his use of architectural space and permanent outdoor installations. Urquhart was responsible for all aspects of the design of The Sanctuary, the award-winning spiritual space at the new Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. This trip became inspiration for a series of screenprints commissioned by Peacock Visual Arts. His aquatint etchings, commissioned by Edinburgh Printmakers, were inspired by a trip to the Cairngorms, further develop concepts stimulated by Urquhart’s time in Iceland (through the Friends of the RSA Artist’s Bursary in 1997).

Scott Myles is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Glasgow. Originally from Dundee, he studied at city’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design where he currently lectures in Contemporary Art Practice. His work is not limited to a singular medium, instead he moves between sculpture, drawing, photography, printmaking, and performance art. Myles is interested in the business of making art, modes of display and ideas concerning repetition of original gestures and the appropriation of processes. His work appeared in the 2009 exhibition, New Commissions and the 2022 exhibition, Workshop. Scott Myles solo exhibitions include Spiral Bound, Meyer Riegger, Berlin; Potlatch, Maison Lafayette, Paris; and This Way Out, The Modern Institute, Glasgow. His work is held in collections including Tate, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; British Council Collection, UK; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh and Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow. 

Marilène Oliver was born in the UK in 1977 and studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins and then continued to the Royal College of Art where she obtained an MA and MPhil. Oliver works across a range of media from traditional print to digital technology and sculpture. Oliver exhibited at Edinburgh Printmakers previously, with a solo show titled ‘Corpus’ in 2013. She has also exhibited internationally, both in private and public galleries such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, MassMoCA, Knoxville Museum of Art, Frissarias Museum, and Kunsthalle Ahlen. Her work is also held in several collections including The Wellcome Trust, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Knoxville Museum of Art.