Bernie Reid: Ornamental Breakdown & VIEW: Selected EP Editions

Edinburgh Printmakers warmly invites you to join us for the launch of our upcoming exhibitions:

Wednesday 1st February 2023

6:30-8:30pm

These exhibitions will be open to the public from Thursday 2nd February - Thursday 16th March.

Ornamental Breakdown by Edinburgh-based artist Bernie Reid

Bernie Reid (b. 1972 Stirling, Scotland) is a Leith-based artist and a graduate of Edinburgh College of Art whose body of work over a 30-year career includes mixed media paintings, trompe l'oeil decorative rugs, graphic screen prints and sculpture. Reid often employs mediums and techniques associated with graffiti such as stencils and spray paint in his work. His mixed media paintings use these techniques alongside traditional oils to depict abstracted and psychedlic figurative forms influenced by the subcultural practices of sampling and hacking established culture in order to create new identities.

Realised with the generous support of VASTINT, Ornamental Breakdown features newly-commissioned works conceived for the exhibition.

More information can be accessed on Bernie Reid's viewing room, here.

VIEW: Selected EP Editions

VIEW: Selected EP Editions brings together a cohort of artworks from our archive, produced from 1987 to the present, and profiling print mediums spanning screen print, etching, lithograph, blocktype, intaglio, collagraph and digital prints. Featuring: Ravi Agarwal; John Bellany; Paul Coldwell; Calum Colvin; Katy Dove; Ruth Ewan; Hideo Furuta; Peter Lynch; Wendy McMurdo; Sandy Moffat; Scott Myles; Marilene Oliver; Carol Rhodes; Robin Spark; Donald Urquhart. More information can be accessed on the exhibition's viewing room, here.

This event is free admission, all welcome! We encourage booking online in advance. Availability on the evening will be dependent on capacity, refreshments will be served.

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Image credit: Bernie Reid, Figure with Sports Sock, Spray Paint on Slip Resistant Vinyl Flooring, 2023