Edinburgh Printmakers

21/10/2026

🧑‍🎨 Etching Weekend Course
21-22 November

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There are a few spaces available for next month's Etching Weekend! Learn the basics of soft-ground and hard-ground etching as well as aquatint.

20/10/2026

🧑‍🎨 Stone Lithography Expanded Practice
14-16 November (3 days)

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Suitable for beginners or for those wishing to refresh their skills.

Initially focusing on learning the process and working in monochrome, we will explore traditional approaches to mark-making using tusche crayon and wash as well as alternative drawing methods. Learn all about processing of images on stone and how to stabilise the image for printing before taking a number of prints to show the development of your drawing at different stages.

19/10/2026

🌟 Last Chance to See 🌟
Jamie Fitzpatrick: Memorials to Sausage Politics
Until 25 October 2026
Free Entry

Memorials to Sausage Politics is a new exhibition by Jamie Fitzpatrick that looks closely at the monuments, statues and architectural decoration embedded in Edinburgh’s streets.

A key part of the exhibition is a series of wall-based prints developed from Fitzpatrick’s research into the city’s statues and civic buildings. Using screenprinting, including bronze pigments, the artist draws on the material language of monuments while challenging their authority. The printed elements are layered, cut, rearranged and disrupted, creating figures that seem to shift between image and object and express the power and strangeness of monumental imagery.

Sculptural works occupy the gallery alongside these prints, extending Fitzpatrick’s image-making process into the physical space. Built with energetic handling and visible material traces, they resist the polished finish often associated with civic memorials.

Jamie Fitzpatrick’s Memorials to Sausage Politics has been generously supported by Henry Moore Foundation, with thanks to Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop in the realisation of this work. The exhibition is part of Edinburgh Art Festival (14 August - 30 August 2026).

18/10/2026

🌟 Last Chance to See 🌟
Etchingroom1: Unexpected Trip
Until 25 October 2026
Free Entry

Edinburgh Printmakers presents a new exhibition from printmaking duo Kristina Yarosh and Anna Khodkova known internationally as Etchingroom1. For Unexpected trip, the Berlin based Ukrainian artists tap into their own experiences and imagination to create a new body of work. Unexpected Trip is a collection of stories and encounters. The stories are heartfelt, like the series of dog stories and sculptures taken straight from their own experience and reflections on love and death.

Unexpected Trip sees the artists return to Edinburgh and Edinburgh Art Festival following the success of their commissioned work What a Wonderful Day In a Wonderful World at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop in 2024. The artists present a wonderfully whimsical collection of pieces that show both the hard and exciting moments of life, but always with this undertone of “and this too shall pass” so you should not take anything all too seriously. Known for their unique childlike illustrative style underpinned by social criticism, Etchingroom1 will share works reflecting everything from explanatory graphs of the religious systems and pagan traditions to the direct alignment of capitalism and materialism with vampires (putting people under the spell of money and power, rather than hypnosis).

Etchingroom1’s Unexpected Trip has been generously supported by the British Council, with thanks to Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop in the realisation of this work. The exhibition is part of Edinburgh Art Festival (14 August - 30 August 2026).

17/10/2026

🧑‍🎨 Relief Printing Weekend
🌟 Suitable for beginners
7-8 November

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This course will give you insight into working with the subtlety of wood, its grain, and how to print multiple colours with it. The skills learned will also be applicable to lino printing.

15/10/2026

🧑‍🎨 Screenprinting Advanced Evening Course
Thursdays from 22 October

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There are a couple last minute spaces remaining on this Screenprinting Advance Course, starting next week! For printers with experience who want to develop their skills.

14/10/2026

🎨 Gluasad Gun Sguir: Perpetual Motion

We’re delighted to invite all to the opening of Gluasad Gun Sguir: Perpetual Motion, a new exhibition presented by An Lanntair and the Scottish Society of Artists (SSA).

Opening Friday 16 October at 5pm, this exhibition brings together artists from across Scotland and beyond, exploring the idea of movement and migration - of people, animals, objects, systems and ideas.

From the movement of people and changing communities to the migration of herring shoals, the movement of water and weather, and the exchange of ideas across generations and borders, the exhibition reflects on how movement has shaped our world, our landscapes and our identities. 🌊

The exhibition features 36 diverse artworks, alongside invited work by contemporary printmaker Ade Adesina, whose intricate relief prints explore identity, place and the contexts that surround us.

📅 Opening: Fri 16 Oct, 5pm
🗓️ Exhibition runs: 17 October – 5 December
📍 Main Gallery

Come along and experience Gluasad Gun Sguir / Perpetual Motion.

Scottish Society of Artists Creative Scotland Ade Adesina

📸Ade Adesina: Salt Lake 2024, Linocut print, Edition of 10, 224cm x 228cm

13/10/2026

🌟 Creative studio spaces available in Edinburgh Printmakers' cultural hub!

Join the creative community at Castle Mills and work in a treasured historic building in Fountainbridge, an evolving area of Edinburgh.

There are two spacious, light-filled studios available within our arts and design hub, designed to provide 24/7 access with independent secure entry, separate from our print studio and galleries. It may be possible to rent desk space as part of a shared studio.

Our subsidised studios can be used flexibly by different sorts of practitioners and creative companies. To date, craft specialists, illustrators, graphic designers, interior designers, product designers, film companies, painters, and tattoo artists have held leases. We welcome all types of creative individuals and companies wanting to work in a friendly and mutually self-supportive environment.

The deadline to register interest for both studio spaces is 30 October, 2026. Please see our website for more information: https://f.mtr.cool/vvbtc9utsn

13/10/2026

12/10/2026

🌟900 Stories in Print🌟
Call for Submissions!

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We're compiling a book and we need your stories of Fountainbridge and the neighbouring areas! Stories do not need to be professionally written and can be told through words, audio, visual art, or film.

We are aiming for 900 diverse stories reflecting on the built, social and intangible heritage of Fountainbridge and neighbouring areas including Gorgie and Dalry. The book will be printed in 2027 and copies will be held in the National Library of Scotland and the City Collections!

Photos courtesy of Edinburgh Evening News.