Edinburgh Art Galleries Sunday Meetup Group

The Void Presses The Wall is a major exhibition by London-based Irish artist Eva Rothschild, whose work grows out of a commitment to sculpture’s capacity to create bodily encounters in space. Her sculptures are born of the city and redolent of the urban landscape. Some, cast or constructed in bronze, plaster or steel, are supported on plinths, ‘behaving’ like sculptures ‘should’, while others stretch, twist, balance, or form whole environments in concrete, polystyrene, cotton and canvas that the viewer must negotiate. Her work creates a constant push-and-pull of the power dynamic between audience and object, drawing attention to how we occupy space.

Curated in collaboration with the artist and touring to Edinburgh from the National Portrait Gallery in London, Catherine Opie: To Be Seen is the first major museum exhibition of her work to be shown in the UK and first ever solo exhibition in Scotland.

Consisting of nearly 80 portraits by Opie alongside a selection of portraits from Scotland’s national collection, the exhibition prompts questions around the who, why and how of portraits.
Catherine Opie: To Be Seen will span the artist’s first major work, Being and Having (1991), and her ennobling portraits of LGBTQ+ friends inspired by court painter Hans Holbein, through to her Baroque-like portraits of other artists. Opie's portraits work together to create new narratives, challenging viewers to think about the figures most commonly portrayed in art and those who go unseen.

N. B. This is a ticketed event with tickets costing from £7.00-£14.00 depending on type.