The Writing on Your Wall
Curated by Rob Tufnell
28 April - 26 May
Adult Printmaking Workshop with Kevin Reid
SLOGANS!
Tuesday 8th May, 6 - 9pm
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Art & Language, Jeremy Deller, Ruth Ewan, James Gillray, Alasdair Gray, Christopher Logue, King Mob, Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan
The Writing on Your Wall is an exhibition that looks at printmaking as a socially concerned, democratic media designed to disseminate radical ideas.
The exhibition, featuring contemporary commissions and historical examples and artifacts, looks back to a history of polemical, iconoclastic and satirical printmaking.
Taking its name both from the biblically inspired idiom (Daniel 5:25–28) and a British Situationist poster from 1968 the exhibition not only proposes political change but can perhaps also be seen to acknowledge the increasing marginalisation of print in a digital age.
Edinburgh Printmakers have commissioned and publish new prints by Art & Language, Jeremy Deller, Ruth Ewan, Alistair Gray and Tom O’Sullivan and Joanne Tatham. Their works will be presented alongside prints produced by Christopher Logue and by King Mob in the late 1960s, James Gillray in the late seventeenth century, pamphlets produced by political presses in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century and other political ephemera.
