Story: Selected Works from Edinburgh Printmakers’ Collection; Impressions: Selected Works from Jerwood Collection
As the necessary historicisation of Scotland’s pre digital but all too recent artistic past runs on apace, it is vital that collections are put on show to remind year zero types that the world didn’t begin with NFTs and AI, but with hard graft and artistic vision. So it goes with Story, which fills Edinburgh Printmakers’ downstairs gallery with what is effectively a greatest hits selection that joins the dots between Edinburgh Printmakers’ assorted homes since it was founded in 1967 in Victoria Street as The Printmakers’ Workshop. Seen together, the forty works on show also become something of a rough guide to the high rollers of contemporary Scottish art since then. Drawn from Edinburgh Printmakers’ permanent collection, the exhibition begins with the muscularity of work by John Bellany, Jock McFadyen, Ken Currie and Peter Howson, as well as pieces from Sam Ainsley and Carol Rhodes. This moves onwards to several generations of art stars, with contributions from the...