Whose Gallery

Is It Anyway?

April - June 2024

Edinburgh Printmakers

On 18th April 2024 Edinburgh Printmakers invited its community to their spring exhibition opening. However, nothing was present in the street-facing white cube gallery, just some shelves and three prompts:

1. Bring an artwork, 2. Hang it up, 3. Move them around. 

Prompted by our status as the first open-access printmaking studio in the UK, we reflected on questions of authority and ownership present within traditional notions of curation as expressed by a singular institutional vision. A question posed during a programming meeting was thus presented to the public and became title of this project: “Whose Gallery Is It Anyway?” 

I will present findings, feedback and reflections from this interactive exhibition project at the 2024 Annual BAN Conference in Birmingham.

This exhibition was added as case study for best practice in Community Engagement for audience participation.

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A series of panel conversations with invited expert speakers, to dwell more into the questions raised by this project.