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Edinburgh Printmakers
Edinburgh Printmakers is a printmaking studio and gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland. It has played a key role in the careers of Alan Davie, John Bellany, Carol Rhodes and Kate Downie. History Edinburgh Printmakers was established in 1967, Britain's first open access printmaking studio promoting wider participation in the arts. In 2019 the Printmakers moved from its former home on Union Street to Castle Mills, Dundee Street in Fountainbridge, a building which was once the headquarters for the North British Rubber Company. They opened with exhibitions by German printmaker and Scottish artist Callum Innes. Janet Archer was appointed CEO in 2021 The building at Castle Mills won architecture awards for re-use and social impact. The organisation is successful in winning subsidies and investment in order to ensure that creative art spaces are open to the public. It is now offers access print studio printmaking facilities for artists using traditional and digital processes. The fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fountainbridge
Fountainbridge ( gd, Drochaid an Fhuarain) is an area of Edinburgh, Scotland, a short distance west of the city centre, adjoining Tollcross with East Fountainbridge and West Port to the east, Polwarth to the west and south, Dalry and Haymarket to the north and Gorgie and North Merchiston to the west. The main streets through the area are Fountainbridge and Dundee Street. The Union Canal which originally continued a short distance north-eastwards to Port Hopetoun at Lothian Road now terminates at the Lochrin Basin. The canal to the south and the route of the former Caledonian Railway (now converted to the West Approach Road) to the north continue to define the area. History Before the mid-18th century (when a sweet-water well, or "fountain" was erected near Grove Street), the area was called Foulbridge: a name relating to a bridge crossing the Foul Burn, a rivulet connecting the Burgh Loch on the Meadows to the Water of Leith but largely operating as a sewer. The name Foul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
