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?”
This exhibition was added as case study for best practice in Community Engagement for audience participation.
A series of panel conversations with invited expert speakers, to dwell more into the questions raised by this project.