Edinburgh Printmakers warmly invites you to the launch of the upcoming exhibitions, Robert Powell: Hall of Hours and Aqsa Arif: Raindrops of Rani on Thursday 31 July at 6:30-8:30pm.
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.
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. In his career thus far he has been the recipient of several awards including the 2008 John Watson Award, the 2011 Benno Schotz Award from the RSA and the 2013 SSA Engramme Printmaking Exchange prize.
This is one of two exhibitions Edinburgh Printmakers is showcasing as part of the 2025 Edinburgh Art Festival.
Robert Powell's Hall of Hours is supported by New Media Scotland, and is a new body of work that expands on the themes contained within a previous work, Chronoscope, an animated clock originally created for the refurbished Music Hall in Aberdeen and supported by and New Media Scotland's Alt-w Fund with investment from Creative Scotland in 2022.
This exhibition has been made possible through production support from Edinburgh Printmakers' Studio.
Main image: Robert Powell, The Clock, etching and watercolour, 2025.
Banner image: Robert Powell, The Age of Expectation, etching and watercolour, 2025
